Latest UN report on Syria highlights extreme hardship of Syrian people

The United Nations commission on Syria issued its latest report on Thursday stressing the extreme hardship endured by millions of ordinary Syrians would only grow more acute unless immediate action was taken to stop the violence.

Based on the acts of violence documented, the Commission's report said that after years of mass displacement, humanitarian emergency and armed conflict have extended far beyond the country's borders.

"With no end in sight, the conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic continues to intensify, subjecting civilians of all backgrounds to crimes against humanity and war crimes," the report noted.

The latest report, the Commission's tenth for the Human Rights Council, calls for urgent action to be taken to ensure effective protection of the Syrian people and to find a political solution to end the violence.

The report also charts the major trends and patterns in which combatants have targeted civilian communities, groups and individuals, and breached international human rights laws.

"As the world stands witness, the Syrian people are suffering to an unimaginable extent," said Commission Chair Paulo Sergio Pinheiro. "It is the responsibility of the warring parties in the Syrian conflict and influential states to seek peace, and the particular responsibility of the international community to open a path to justice for Syrian victims."

Now in its fifth year, the armed conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic has become protracted and chaotic.

The report draws on more than 335 interviews with victims and eyewitnesses in and outside the country between January and July 2015.

It is scheduled to be presented on Sept. 21 during an interactive dialogue at the 30th session of the Human Rights Council here. Endit