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Member states must back Secretary-General António Guterres’ proposal to set up a body on Syria’s disappeared.

Fadwa Mahmoud holds portraits of her son and husband, who disappeared in 2012, as around 300 landline telephones placed by Syrian families stand at the Bebelplatz as a call to governments to do more to seek information about detained people in Syria, in Berlin, Germany August 28, 2021. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Some states continue to put barriers to universal jurisdiction which prevent the prosecution of Syrian war criminals.

A young woman wearing a pink jumper sits on the street surrounded by framed pictures of victims of the Syrian regime.