The United Nations human rights committee has passed a resolution condemning¹ Syria's crackdown on opposition² protests.

联合国人权委员会通过一项决议，谴责叙利亚对反对派抗议者的镇压。

It also called on Damascus to implement³ an Arab League plan to end the violence.

The resolution, drafted by Britain, France and Germany, carries moral（道德的） but not legal weight.

The move comes as Syrian activists⁴ said another 33 people, including six children, had been killed across Syria.

Earlier, Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down to avoid further bloodshed（流血，杀戮） .

The vote took place at the UN in New York. The three nations who drafted the resolution hope it will be a first step to bringing the issue back to the UN Security Council.

'Diplomatic war'

The latest resolution says the committee "strongly condemns⁵ the continued grave and systematic⁶ human rights violations⁷ by the Syrian authorities, such as arbitrary（任意的，武断的） executions, excessive use of force and the persecution⁸ and killing⁹ of protesters and human rights defenders¹⁰".

But it makes no mention of sanctions.

It was backed by Western nations and a number of Arab member states. The resolution received 122 votes in favour, 13 against and 41 abstentions（弃权） .

Arab states that voted for it included co-sponsors Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Qatar and Saudi Arabia as well as Egypt.

A previous attempt to pass a resolution in the Security Council was vetoed by Russia and China. The two countries abstained¹¹ in the latest vote.

Syria's ambassador to the UN has accused the Europeans of declaring "diplomatic war" on his country.