A/HRC/RES/37/35
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 April 2018
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-seventh session
26 February–23 March 2018
Agenda item 7
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 23 March 2018
37/35.
Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including
East Jerusalem
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocol thereto on the
involvement of children in armed conflict, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Discrimination against Women, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the International Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and affirming that these human rights
instruments, among others, are applicable to and must be respected in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,
Recalling also relevant resolutions of the Human Rights Council,
Taking note of the recent reports of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human
rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, 1 and other relevant recent reports of
the Human Rights Council,
Stressing the urgent need for efforts to reverse the negative trends on the ground and
to restore a political horizon for advancing and accelerating meaningful negotiations aimed
at the achievement of a peace agreement that will bring a complete end to the Israeli
occupation that began in 1967 and the resolution of all core final status issues, without
exception, leading to a peaceful, just, lasting and comprehensive solution of the question of
Palestine,
Noting the accession by the State of Palestine to several human rights treaties and
the core humanitarian law conventions, and its accession on 2 January 2015 to the Rome
Statute of the International Criminal Court,
Recalling the advisory opinion rendered on 9 July 2004 by the International Court of
Justice, and recalling also General Assembly resolutions ES-10/15 of 20 July 2004 and ES10/17 of 15 December 2006,
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A/72/556 and A/HRC/37/75.
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