United Nations
A/RES/67/121
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 January 2013
Sixty-seventh session
Agenda item 53
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2012
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/67/424)]
67/121. Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the
Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian
Territory, including East Jerusalem
The General Assembly,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1
Recalling also the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights2 and the
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 3 and affirming that these human rights
instruments must be respected in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East
Jerusalem,
Reaffirming its relevant resolutions, including resolution 66/79 of 9 December
2011 as well as those adopted at its tenth emergency special session,
Recalling the relevant resolutions of the Human Rights Council,
Recalling also the relevant resolutions of the Security Council, and stressing
the need for their implementation,
Having considered 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 4 and the report of the Secretary-General, 5
Taking note of the recent reports of the Special Rapporteur of the Human
Rights Council on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
4
A/67/550.
5
A/67/372.
2
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