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| CEAS | Common European Asylum System |
| CiSS | Children in street situations |
| CJEU | Court of Justice of the European Union |
| COI | Country of Origin Information |
D |
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| DAANES | Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria |
| DAM | Damascus International Airport |
E |
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| ERW | Explosive Remnants of War |
| EUAA | European Union Agency for Asylum |
| EU | European Union |
| EU+ countries | Member States of the European Union and associated countries |
F |
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| FSA | Free Syrian Army |
G |
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| GAPAR | General Administration for Palestinian Arab Refugees |
| GBV | Gender Based Violence |
| GoS | Government of Syria |
| GSS | General Security Services |
H |
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| HTS | Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham |
I |
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| ID | Identification Documentation |
| IDF | Israel Defence Forces |
| IDP | Internally Displaced Person |
| IEDs | Improvised Explosive Devices |
| IOM | International Organization for Migration |
| IPA | Internal Protection Alternative |
| ISIL | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant |
K |
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| KWU | Kurdistan Women Union |
L |
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| LGBTIQ |
LGBTIQ people are people:
-who are attracted to others of their own gender (lesbian, gay) or any gender (bisexual);
-whose gender identity and/or expression does not correspond to the sex they were assigned at birth (trans, non-binary);
-who are born with sex characteristics that do not fit the typical definition of male or female (intersex); and
-whose identity does not fit into a binary classification of sexuality and/or gender (queer).
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M |
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| MS | Member States of the European Union |
| MOD | Ministry of Defence |
| MOI | Ministry of Interior |
N |
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| NDF | National Defence Forces, Quwat al Difa al Watani |
| NLF | National Liberation Front |
P |
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| PiN | People in Need |
| PKK | Kurdistan Workers' Party |
| PYD | Democratic Union Party (Kurdish) |
Q |
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QD (Qualification Directive) |
Directive 2011/95/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection, for a uniform status for refugees or for persons eligible for subsidiary protection, and for the content of the protection granted (recast) |
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QR (Qualification Regulation) |
Regulation (EU) 2024/1347 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 on standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection, for a uniform status for refugees or for persons eligible for subsidiary protection and for the content of the protection granted, amending Council Directive 2003/109/EC and repealing Directive 2011/95/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council. |
R |
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| Refugee Convention | The 1951 Convention relating to the status of refugees and its 1967 Protocol (referred to in EU asylum legislation and by the CJEU as ‘the Geneva Convention’) |
| RPGs | Rocket Propelled Grenades |
S |
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| SAF | Syrian Armed Forces |
| SDF | Syrian Democratic Forces |
| SJAC | Syria Justice and Accountability Centre |
| SNA | Syrian National Army |
| SNHR | Syrian Network for Human Rights |
| SOGIESC | Sexual orientation (SO) and/or gender identity and expression (GIE), and sex characteristics (SC) |
U |
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| UAS | Unmanned Aircraft Systems |
| UN | United Nations |
| UNDP | United Nations Development Programme |
| UNHCR | United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
| UNICEF | United Nations Children's Fund |
| UNRWA | The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East |
| US | United States of America |
| UXO | Unexploded ordnance |