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The ECAJ and ZFA deplore the decision made by the Executive Board of UNESCO on 8 March 2012 which, while it condemned “the continued wide­spread and sys­tem­at­ic violation of human rights and fun­da­ment­al freedoms by the Syrian author­it­ies”, failed to heed the calls of the US and other Executive Board members for Syria to be expelled outright from the UNESCO Committee on Con­ven­tions and Recom­mend­a­tions which deals with human rights.