A/HRC/RES/43/3
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
30 June 2020
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-third session
24 February–13 March and 15–23 June 2020
Agenda item 2
Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the
High Commissioner and the Secretary-General
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 19 June 2020
43/3.
Ensuring accountability and justice for all violations of international
law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling the relevant rules and principles of international law, including international
humanitarian law and human rights law, in particular the Geneva Convention relative to the
Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, which is applicable to the
Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,
Recalling also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the other human rights
covenants, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Convention on the
Rights of the Child,
Recalling further the statement of 15 July 1999 and the declarations adopted on 5
December 2001 and 17 December 2014 at the Conference of High Contracting Parties to the
Fourth Geneva Convention on measures to enforce the Convention in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, at which the High Contracting Parties
reaffirmed, inter alia, their commitment to uphold their obligation to ensure respect for the
Convention in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,
Recalling its relevant resolutions, including resolutions S-9/1 of 12 January 2009,
19/17 of 22 March 2012, S-21/1 of 23 July 2014 and S-28/1 of 18 May 2018,
Recalling also the reports of the independent international commission of inquiry on
the protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,1 the independent commission of inquiry
on the 2014 Gaza conflict,2 the independent international fact-finding mission to investigate
the implications of Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural
1
2
A/HRC/40/74.
A/HRC/29/52.
GE.20-08623(E)