List of abbreviations and glossary

 

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C

 
CEAS Common European Asylum System
CiSS Children in street situations
CJEU Court of Justice of the European Union
COI Country of Origin Information

D

 
DAANES Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
DAM Damascus International Airport

E

 
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

 
FSA Free Syrian Army

G

 
GAPAR General Administration for Palestinian Arab Refugees
GBV Gender Based Violence
GoS Government of Syria
GSS General Security Services

H

 
HTS Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham

I

 
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

 
KWU Kurdistan Women Union

L

 
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).
 

M

 
MS Member States of the European Union
MOD Ministry of Defence
MOI Ministry of Interior

N

 
NDF National Defence Forces, Quwat al Difa al Watani
NLF National Liberation Front

P

 
PiN People in Need 
PKK Kurdistan Workers' Party 
PYD Democratic Union Party (Kurdish)

Q

 

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)

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

 
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

 
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

 
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 

W

 
WFP UN World Food Programme
WHO World Health Organisation

Y

 
YPG Kurdish People’s Protection Units
YPJ Kurdish Women’s Protection Units