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the <a href="https://www.icc-cpi.int/resource-library/documents/rs-eng.pdf" target="_blank">Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court</a>, and <a href="https://wipolex.wipo.int/en/legislation/details/10918" target="_blank">Syrian Penal Law</a>.</p><p class="paragraph_paragraph__Qe_Wr">SAP primarily creates documentation products in a narrative and graphical format, as well as a quarterly and annual trend analysis of ongoing crimes. Furthermore, the SAP publishes issue-specific white papers. Its clients include the <a href="http://syriancouncil.org/" target="_blank">Syrian National Council</a>, <a href="https://www.un.org/" target="_blank">United Nations</a>, <a href="https://www.state.gov/" target="_blank">U.S. Department of State</a>, and the <a href="https://www.icc-cpi.int/" target="_blank">International Criminal Court</a>. As a subsidiary of the Global Accountability Network, SAP collaborates with accountability projects and organizations across the globe to hold war criminals accountable for their heinous acts.</p></main></div></div><footer class="footer_footer__3LSES">The Syrian Accountability Project is an internationally recognized effort to document war crimes and crimes against humanity from <a href="https://www.syracuse.edu" target="_blank">Syracuse University</a>.</footer></div><script id="__NEXT_DATA__" type="application/json">{"props":{"pageProps":{}},"page":"/about","query":{},"buildId":"L21zO2Qt5Q3PHu0p5mdD0","nextExport":true,"autoExport":true,"isFallback":false,"scriptLoader":[]}</script></body></html>