Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories

A/RES/32/91[C]View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 57 Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories, published in 1978.

What else is in this group?

99 documents · 1971–1990

Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 1990).

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1990	A/RES/44/48	Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories resolutions	2,136	–
1990	A/RES/44/48G	Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories resolutions	—	–
1990	A/RES/44/48F	Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories resolutions	—	–
1990	A/RES/44/48E	Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories resolutions	—	–
1990	A/RES/44/48D	Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories resolutions	—	–

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17 subjects

Annexation of Territory Arrest Civilian Persons Confiscations Cultural Property Destruction of Property Forced Migration Human Rights Violations Information Dissemination Israel Middle East Situation Natural Resources Prisoner Treatment Religious Freedom Settlement Policy Territories Occupied by Israel Treaties

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20 operative paragraphs

A/RES/32/91 [C]

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Commends the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories for its efforts in performing the tasks assigned to it by the General Assembly;

Deplores the continued refusal by Israel to allow the Special Committee access to the occupied territories;

Calls again upon Israel to allow the Special Committee access to the occupied territories;

Deplores the continued and persistent violation by Israel of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, and other applicable international instruments, and condemns in particular those violations which that Convention designates as "grave breaches" thereof;

Condemns the following Israeli policies and practices:

The annexation of parts of the occupied territories;

( b) The establishment of Israeli settlements therein and the transfer of an alien population thereto;

( c) The evacuation, deportation, expulsion, displacement and transfer of Arab inhabitants of the occupied territories, and the denial of their right to return;

The confiscation and expropriation of Arab property in the occupied territories and all other transactions for the acquisition of land involving the Israeli authorities, institutions or nationals on the one hand, and the inhabitants or institutions of the occupied territories on the other;

( e) The destruction and demolition of Arah houses;

Mass arrests, administrative detention and illtreatment of the Arab population;

The ill-treatment and torture of persons under detention;

The pillaging of archaeological and cultur.il property;

The interference with religious freedoms and practices as well as with family rights and customs;

The illegal exploitation of the natural wealth, resources and population of the occupied territories;

Reaffirms that all measures taken by Israel to change the physical character, demographic composition, institutional structure or status of the occupied territories, or any part thereof, including Jerusalem, are null and void, and that Israel's policy of settling parts of its population and new immigrants in the occupied territories constitutes a flagrant violation of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War and of the relevant United Nations resolutions;

Demands that Israel desist forthwith from the policies and practices referred to in paragraphs 5 and 6 of the present resolution;

Reiterates its call upon all States, in particular those States parties to the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War,

25 A/32/284. in accordance with article I of that Convention, and upon international organizations and specialized agencies not to recognize any changes carried out by Israel in the occupied territories and to avoid actions, including those in the field of aid, which might be used by Israel in its pursuit of the policies of annexation and colonization or any of the other policies and practices referred to in the present resolution;

Requests the Special Committee, pending the early termination of the Israeli occupation, to continue to investigate Israeli policies and practices in the Arab territories occupied by Israel since I 967, to consult, as appropriate. with the International Committee of the Red Cross in order to ensure the safeguarding of the welfare and human rights of the population of the occupied terri lories, and to report to the Secretary- General as soon as possible and whenever the need arises thereafter;

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Requests the Special Committee to continue to investigate the treatment of civilians in detention in the Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967 and to submit to the Secretary-General a special report on that subject as soon as possible and whenever the need arises thereafter;

Requests the Secretary-General:

. To render all necessary facilities to the Special Committee, including those required for its visits to the occupied territories, with a view to investigating the Israeli policies and practices referred to in the present resolution;

To continue to make available additional staff ( b) '.ls may be necessary to assist the Special Committee m the performance of its tasks;

( c) To ensure the widest circulation of the reports '.)f t~e Special Committee, and of information regardmg its activities and findings, by all means available through the Office of Public Information of the Secretariat and, where necessary, to reprint those reports of the Special Committee which are no longer available;

. (d) '!'o report to the General Assembly at its thirtytlurd se,;;;1on on the tasks entrusted to him in the present paragraph;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-third session the item entitled "Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of th~ Occupied Territories''.

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