Syrian National law

•  Syrian constitution

•  Criminal law

•  Criminal procedure law

•  Military criminal law

•  Law for establishment of military courts

•  Law of the population census

•  Declaration of state of emergency and customary law

•  Law of state of emergency

•  Law for establishment of state security courts

•  Law of not prosecution of security forces

•  Public servants law

•  Nationality law

•  Family law

•  Constitution of Al Baath party

•  Program of Al Baath party
   

Government decisions

International law

• Charter of the United Nations

• Bill of human rights
  - Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948
  - International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 1966
  - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966
  - Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  - Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
     aiming at the abolition of the death penalt
   

• The Core International Human Rights Instruments
  - ICERD International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
    1965
  - ICESCR International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 16 Dec 1966
  - CEDAW Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
    1979
  - CAT Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
     Punishment 1984 
  - CRC Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 
  - ICRMW International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers
     and Members of Their Families 1990 
  - International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
    (not yet into force)
  - Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (not yet into force) 
  - OP-CEDAW Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination
     against Women 1999 
  - OP-CRC-AC Optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the
     involvement of children in armed conflict 2000
  - OP-CRC-SC Optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale
     of children, child prostitution and child pornography 2000 
  - OP-CAT Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman
     or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 2002 
  - Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (not yet
     into force)
   

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