A/HRC/RES/34/30
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
11 April 2017
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-fourth session
27 February–24 March 2017
Agenda item 7
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 24 March 2017
34/30.
Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,
including East Jerusalem
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocol thereto on the
involvement of children in armed conflict, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Discrimination against Women, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the International Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and affirming that these human rights
instruments, among others, are applicable to and must be respected in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,
Recalling also relevant resolutions of the Human Rights Council,
Taking note of the recent reports of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human
rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, 1 and other relevant recent reports of
the Human Rights Council,
Deeply regretting the onset of the fiftieth year of the Israeli occupation, and
stressing the urgent need for efforts to reverse the negative trends on the ground and to
restore a political horizon for advancing and accelerating meaningful negotiations aimed at
the achievement of a peace agreement that will bring a complete end to the Israeli
occupation that began in 1967 and the resolution of all core final status issues, without
exception, leading to a peaceful, just, lasting and comprehensive solution of the question of
Palestine,
Noting the accession by Palestine to several human rights treaties and the core
humanitarian law conventions, and its accession on 2 January 2015 to the Rome Statute of
the International Criminal Court,
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A/71/554 and A/HRC/34/70.
GE.17-05882(E)