110.19 Stop the widespread practices of enforced disappearance, arbitrary detention and the use of
sexual violence, torture and ill-treatment in its detention centres. This includes granting international
monitoring bodies immediate access without undue restriction to all detainees, and publish a list of all
detention facilities (Denmark);
Not supported
110.22 Immediately free unconditionally all persons arbitrarily detained by the Syrian authorities, as a
priority women, children and older persons (France);
110.23 Release the thousands of Syrians unlawfully detained, especially women and children (United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland).
UPR 3rd Cycle
Supported Recommendations:
133.85 Continue with policy and legislative measures for promoting gender equality and combating
gender-based discrimination (India);
133.87 Take legislative and policy measures to ensure non-discrimination against women and girls,
including by withdrawing all reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women (Finland);
133.88 Support efforts to resume the work of the Constitutional Committee towards consensus on a
constitution that preserves the rights and freedoms of all Syrians without discrimination (Egypt);
133.244 Amend the provisions in the Personal Status Law and the Citizenship Law that are
discriminatory against women, specifically in the areas of marriage, divorce, inheritance, marital
property and the granting of citizenship to children (Sweden);
133.248 Amend its citizenship laws to ensure Syrian citizenship for the children of Syrian women,
including children born abroad, in line with the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Norway);
133.250 Adopt measures to guarantee the public and political participation of women in national
institutions and mechanisms for reconciliation and rectify any provision that fosters discrimination or
violence against women and girls (Mexico);
Noted Recommendations:
133.13 Withdraw all reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women, including those to articles 2 and 9, and amend national laws accordingly (Iceland);
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