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12.
Calls upon business enterprises to take all measures necessary to comply with
their responsibilities under the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and
relevant international laws and standards, foremost by terminating their activities in or in
relation to the Israeli settlements and the wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including
East Jerusalem, to withdraw from settlements in order to cease the unmitigable adverse
impact of their activities on human rights, and to cease contributing to the establishment,
maintenance, development or consolidation of Israeli settlements or the exploitation of the
natural resources of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem;
13.
Calls upon relevant United Nations bodies to take all measures and actions
within their mandates necessary to ensure full respect for and compliance with Human Rights
Council resolution 17/4 of 16 June 2011 on the Guiding Principles on Business and Human
Rights, and other relevant international laws and standards and to ensure the implementation
of the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework, which provides a global
standard for upholding human rights in relation to business activities that are connected with
Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem;
14.
Requests the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the
Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel to prepare a report on
the identities of settlers, as well as settler groups and their members, that have engaged in or
continue to engage in acts of, violence, intimidation, harassment or terror against Palestinian
civilians and the actions taken by Israel, the occupying Power, and by third States to ensure
accountability for violations or abuses of international law in this regard, and to present the
report to the Human Rights Council at its fifty-ninth session;
15.
Requests the Secretary-General to allocate the resources necessary to prepare
the requested report;
16.
Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to report
on the implementation of the provisions of the present resolution to the Human Rights
Council at its fifty-eighth session;
17.
Decides to remain seized of the matter.
56th meeting
5 April 2024
[Adopted by a recorded vote of 36 to 3, with 8 abstentions. The voting was as follows:
In favour:
Algeria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Burundi, Chile, China, Costa
Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Eritrea, Finland, France,
Gambia, Ghana, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait,
Kyrgyzstan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Maldives, Montenegro, Morocco,
Netherlands (Kingdom of the), Qatar, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, United
Arab Emirates, Viet Nam
Against:
Malawi, Paraguay, United States of America
Abstaining:
Albania, Argentina, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Georgia, Germany, Lithuania,
Romania]
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