E/2014/27 E/CN.6/2014/15 implementation of the August 2009 plan of the Palestinian Authority for constructing the institutions of an independent Palestinian State and the significant achievements made, as confirmed by international institutions, including the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations, and calls for continued support of these efforts; 3. Demands that Israel, the occupying Power, comply fully with the provisions and principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 8 the Regulations annexed to the Hague Convention IV of 18 October 1907, the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 12 August 1949, 9 and all other relevant rules, principles and instruments of international law, including the International Covenants on Human Rights, 6 in order to protect the rights of Palestinian women and their families; 4. Urges the international community to continue to give special attention to the promotion and protection of the human rights of Palestinian women and girls and to intensify its measures to improve the difficult conditions being faced by Palestinian women and their families living under Israeli occupation; 5. Calls upon Israel to facilitate the return of all refugees and displaced Palestinian women and children to their homes and properties, in compliance with the relevant United Nations resolutions; 6. Stresses the urgent need for sustained and active international involvement, including by the Quartet, to assist the parties in advancing and accelerating peace process negotiations for the achievement of a just, lasting and comprehensive peace settlement that ends the occupation which began in 1967 and results in the independence of a democratic, contiguous and viable State of Palestine living side by side in peace and security with Israel and its neighbours, on the basis of United Nations resolutions, the Quartet road map to a permanent two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 10 and the Arab Peace Initiative adopted by the Council of the League of Arab States at its fourteenth session; 11 7. Requests the Commission on the Status of Women to continue to monitor and take action with regard to the implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women, 2 in particular paragraph 260 concerning Palestinian women and children, the Beijing Platform for Action,3 and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”;4 8. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to review the situation, to assist Palestinian women by all available means, including those laid out in his report, 1 and to submit to the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-ninth session a report, including information provided by the Economic __________________ 8 9 10 11 28/95 General Assembly resolution 217 A (III). United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, No. 973. S/2003/529, annex. A/56/1026-S/2002/932, annex II, resolution 14/221. 14-02869