The UN's Human Rights
Council (UNHRC) called on Syria Thursday to end all rights abuses and allow aid
agencies "free and unimpeded" access to those caught up in the
bloodshed.
A resolution adopted by the
council condemned the "continued widespread and systematic violations of
human rights" and urged the authorities to let humanitarian groups,
including UN organization, in to deliver vital aid.
Russia, Cuba and China
voted against the resolution while India, the Philippines and Ecuador
abstained.
Civilians in Homs, Daraa
and Zabadani are in particular need of urgent help, said the resolution tabled
by Qatar and Turkey earlier this week.
The Syrian representative
to the UN boycotted an HRC debate on the human rights situation in the
violence-wracked country on Tuesday.
A crackdown by troops in
response to 11 months of protests against President Bashar al-Assad's regime
has left more than 7,500 people dead, according to the United Nations.
The resolution calls on
Assad's regime to "permit humanitarian agencies to deliver vital relief
goods and services to all civilians affected by the violence, especially in
Homs, Daraa, Zabadani and other areas under siege by the Syrian security
forces."
The eight-point resolution
also expressed concern over "the lack of access to basic food, medicine
and fuel, as well as threats to and acts of violence against medical staff,
patients and facilities."
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