A/HRC/RES/31/25
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
20 April 2016
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-first session
Agenda item 7
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 24
March 2016
31/25. Human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan
The Human Rights Council,
Deeply concerned at the suffering of the Syrian citizens in the occupied Syrian
Golan due to the systematic and continuous violation of their fundamental and human rights
by Israel since the Israeli military occupation of 1967,
Recalling Security Council resolution 497 (1981) of 17 December 1981,
Recalling also all relevant General Assembly resolutions, the most recent being
resolution 70/91 of 9 December 2015, in which the Assembly declared that Israel had failed
to comply with Security Council resolution 497 (1981) and demanded that it withdraw from
all the occupied Syrian Golan,
Reaffirming once more the illegality of the decision by Israel of 14 December 1981
to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan, which has
resulted in the effective annexation of that territory,
Reaffirming the principle of the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by
force, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of
international law,
Taking note with deep concern of the report of the Special Committee to Investigate
Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of
the Occupied Territories,1 and in this connection deploring the Israeli settlements in the
occupied Arab territories and expressing regret at the constant refusal of Israel to cooperate
with and to receive the Special Committee,
Guided by the relevant provisions of the Charter, international law and the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, and reaffirming the applicability of the Geneva Convention
relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 12 August 1949 and the
1
A/70/406 and Corr.1.
GE.16-06469(E)
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