United Nations
A/RES/57/188
General Assembly
Distr.: General
6 February 2003
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 105
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/57/552)]
57/188. Situation of and assistance to Palestinian children
The General Assembly,
Recalling the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1
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, 2
Recalling further the Declaration and Plan of Action adopted by the General
Assembly at its twenty-seventh special session, 3
Concerned that the Palestinian children under Israeli occupation remain
deprived of many basic rights under the Convention,
Concerned also about the recent grave deterioration of the situation of
Palestinian children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,
and about the severe consequences of the continuing Israeli assaults and sieges on
Palestinian cities, towns, villages and refugee camps, resulting in the dire
humanitarian crisis,
Expressing its condemnation of all acts of violence resulting in extensive loss
of human life and injuries, including among Palestinian children,
Deeply concerned about the consequences, including psychological
consequences, of the Israeli military actions for the present and future well-being of
Palestinian children,
1.
Stresses the urgent need for Palestinian children to live a normal life, free
from foreign occupation, destruction and fear, in their own State;
2.
Demands, in the meantime, that Israel, the occupying Power, respect
relevant provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child 1 and comply fully
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1
Resolution 44/25, annex.
A/45/625, annex.
3
See resolution S-27/2, annex.
2
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