A/RES/61/154
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 February 2007
Sixty-first session
Agenda item 67 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2006
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/61/443/Add.2 and Corr.1)]
61/154. The human rights situation arising from the recent Israeli
military operations in Lebanon
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the Universal
Declaration and Programme of
Covenant on Civil and Political
Social and Cultural Rights,3 the
human rights instruments,
Declaration of Human Rights 1 and the Vienna
Action of 1993, 2 and recalling the International
Rights, 3 the International Covenant on Economic,
Convention on the Rights of the Child 4 and other
Guided by relevant human rights instruments and international humanitarian
law, in particular the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 respecting the Laws and
Customs of War on Land, 5 which prohibit attacks on and bombardment of civilian
populations and objects and lay down obligations for general protection against
dangers arising from military operations against civilian objects, hospitals, relief
materials and means of transportation,
Recalling the commitments of the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva
Conventions of 12 August 1949 6 and the Additional Protocols thereto of 1977, 7
Recalling also the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and
Development of Children and the Plan of Action for Implementing the World
Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children in the 1990s
adopted by the World Summit for Children, held in New York on 29 and
30 September 1990, 8
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
3
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
4
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
5
See Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Hague Conventions and Declarations of 1899 and
1907 (New York, Oxford University Press, 1915).
6
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
7
Ibid., vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513.
8
A/45/625, annex.
2
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