A/RES/71/98
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 December 2016
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 50
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 6 December 2016
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/71/494)]
71/98.
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 Rights 2 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 70/90 of 9 December
2015 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 a nd Other Arabs of
the Occupied Territories 4 and the report of the Secretary-General on the work of the
Special Committee, 5
Taking note of the recent reports of the Special Rapporteur of the Human
Rights Council on the situation of human rights in the Pale stinian territories
occupied since 1967, 6 as well as of other relevant recent reports of the Human
Rights Council,
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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/71/352.
5
A/71/315.
6
A/HRC/28/78 and A/HRC/31/73; see also A/71/554.
2
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