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26-Nov-2024 Right of peoples to self-determination – Report of the GA Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural) to General Assembly (A/79/457) Human rights and international humanitarian law, Occupation, Palestine question, Self-determination, Two State solution A/79/457
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General Assembly, General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural)

Entity:

United Nations system

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Report

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08-Nov-2024 The right of the Palestinian people to self-determination (GA draft resolution) – (A/C.3/79/L.49) – Approved Human rights and international humanitarian law, Occupation, Palestine question, Self-determination, Two State solution A/C.3/79/L.49
Sources:

General Assembly, General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Draft resolution, General Assembly draft resolution, General Assembly resolution, Resolution

Country:

05-Nov-2024 United Nations, states must combat ‘deep-rooted’ racism against Palestinians, neo-Nazism, hate speech targeting minorities, experts tell Third Committee Armed conflict, Convention: Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Gaza Strip, Hostages, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Occupation, Racial discrimination, Violence GA/SHC/4425
Sources:

General Assembly, General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural), Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Multimedia, Press Release, Report, Video

Country:

30-Oct-2024 ‘Atrocities by One Side Do Not Justify Those by the Other,’ Commission of Inquiry Chair Tells Third Committee, Implicating Israeli Forces, Palestinian Armed Groups in War Crimes – Press release Armed conflict, Arms control and regional security issues, Atrocities, Gaza Strip, Genocide, Hostages, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Israel's illegal occupation, Jerusalem, Prisoners and detainees, Violence, War crimes, West Bank, human rights violations GA/SHC/4422
Sources:

General Assembly, General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural), Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, United Nations Independent International Commission on the oPt, including E. Jerusalem, and Israel

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Multimedia, Press Release, Video

Country:

23-Oct-2024 ‘We Know What Apartheid Looks Like,’ South Africa’s Delegate Tells Third Committee amid Mounting Calls for Justice for Palestinians – Press release (excerpt) Apartheid, Armed conflict, Gaza Strip, Genocide, Human rights and international humanitarian law GA/SHC/4417
Sources:

General Assembly, General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

18-Oct-2024 As Gaza Faces Starvation, Food Rights Expert Tells UNGA Third Committee ‘You Did Not Act’ on Genocide Risk – Press release Armed conflict, Children, Food, Gaza Strip, Genocide, Hunger, Water, malnutrition GA/SHC/4414
Sources:

General Assembly, General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural), Special Rapporteur on the right to food

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

16-Oct-2024 Amid escalating carnage, broad impunity and trampling of international law, Türk calls on UN General Assembly to invest in human rights – Third Committee GA – UN GA 79 Armed conflict, Children, Gaza Strip, Hostages, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Violence, War crimes, West Bank, Women
Sources:

General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural), Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Remarks, Speech, Statement

Country:

14-Oct-2024 Half Billion Children Trapped in Conflict Face Grave Rights Offenses, Third Committee Told, as Delegate Stresses Minors ‘Innocent on Both Sides’ Armed conflict, Children, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Palestine question, Refugees and displaced persons GA/SHC/4410
Sources:

General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

29-Nov-2023 Right of peoples to self-determination – Report of the Third Committee – GA 78th session (A/78/479) Armed conflict, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Palestine question, Peace process, Self-determination A/78/479
Sources:

General Assembly, General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Report

Country:

26-Oct-2023 NGO Action News – 26 October 2023 Armed conflict, Gaza Strip, NGOs/Civil Society
Sources:

ADALAH - Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, Addameer Prisoners’ Support and Human Rights Association, Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights, Al-Haq, Al-Shabaka, Amnesty International, Association Belgo Palestininienne, Association France Palestine Solidarite, B'Tselem, Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), Division for Palestinian Rights (DPR), Friends of Sabeel-North America (FOSNA), General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural), Gisha - Legal Centre for Freedom Movement (NGO), HaMoked, Human Rights Watch, Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Institute for Palestine Studies, J Street, Jewish Voice for Peace, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Physicians for Human Rights, Scientists for Palestine, Secretary-General, Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the OPT, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO)

Entity:

Non-governmental organization, United Nations system

Type

NGO Action News

Country:

26-Oct-2023 Noticias de Acción de las ONG – 26 de octubre 2023 Armed conflict, Gaza Strip, NGOs/Civil Society
Sources:

ADALAH - Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, Addameer Prisoners’ Support and Human Rights Association, Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights, Al-Haq, Al-Shabaka, Amnesty International, Association Belgo Palestininienne, Association France Palestine Solidarite, B'Tselem, Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), Division for Palestinian Rights (DPR), Friends of Sabeel-North America (FOSNA), General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural), Gisha - Legal Centre for Freedom Movement (NGO), HaMoked, Human Rights Watch, Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Institute for Palestine Studies, J Street, Jewish Voice for Peace, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Physicians for Human Rights, Scientists for Palestine, Secretary-General, Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the OPT, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO)

Entity:

Non-governmental organization, United Nations system

Type

NGO Action News - Spanish

Country:

26-Oct-2023 NGO Action News – 26 octobre 2023 Armed conflict, Gaza Strip, NGOs/Civil Society
Sources:

ADALAH - Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, Addameer Prisoners’ Support and Human Rights Association, Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights, Al-Haq, Al-Shabaka, Amnesty International, Association Belgo Palestininienne, Association France Palestine Solidarite, B'Tselem, Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), Division for Palestinian Rights (DPR), Friends of Sabeel-North America (FOSNA), General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural), Gisha - Legal Centre for Freedom Movement (NGO), HaMoked, Human Rights Watch, Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Institute for Palestine Studies, J Street, Jewish Voice for Peace, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Physicians for Human Rights, Scientists for Palestine, Secretary-General, Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the OPT, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO)

Entity:

Non-governmental organization, United Nations system

Type

NGO Action News - French

Country:

24-Oct-2023 As Civilian Casualties Reach Record Levels in Gaza, Third Committee Underscores Need to End War, Lift Blockade of Essential Needs, Hold Parties Accountable – Press Release Armed conflict, Assistance to the Palestinian people, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Humanitarian relief, Illegal Israeli actions in occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory GA/SHC/4390
Sources:

General Assembly, General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural), United Nations Department of Global Communications

Entity:

Type

Press Release

Country:

24-Oct-2023 The Right of the Palestinian people to Self-determination – GA Draft Resolution (A/C.3/78/L.24) Human rights and international humanitarian law, Inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, Occupation, Self-determination A/C.3/78/L.24
Sources:

General Assembly, General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural)

Entity:

Type

Draft resolution, General Assembly draft resolution, General Assembly resolution, Resolution

Country:

Egypt

24-Oct-2023 General Assembly’s Third Committee – Summary record of the 35th meeting, 24 October 2023 (Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel) Access and movement, Armed conflict, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Israel's illegal occupation, Jerusalem, Refugees and displaced persons, West Bank A/C.3/78/SR.35
Sources:

Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, General Assembly, General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural), United Nations Independent International Commission on the oPt, including E. Jerusalem, and Israel

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Summary record

Country:

Israel, Palestine (State of)

18-Oct-2023 Third Committee Condemns Brutal Bombing of Gaza Hospital, Enforced Displacement of Palestinian Civilians, Emphasizes Urgent Need for Unimpeded Humanitarian Aid Armed conflict, Casualties, Ceasefire, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Humanitarian relief, Internally displaced persons, Palestine question, Security issues, Terrorism, Violence
Sources:

General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Meeting record, Meeting report

Country:

Albania, Algeria, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Canada, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Germany, Iceland, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Palestine (State of), Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Türkiye, United Kingdom

10-Oct-2023 Highlighting Hamas’ Recent Attack on Israel, Third Committee Expresses Dismay at Rise in Conflict Victims, Racism, Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia Worldwide – Press Release Armed conflict, Assistance, Casualties, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Humanitarian relief, Violence GA/SHC/4380
Sources:

General Assembly, General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural)

Entity:

Type

Meeting report, Press Release

Country:

31-Dec-2022 Action by UN System and Intergovernmental Organizations Relevant to the Question of Palestine (December 2022 Monthly Bulletin) Access and movement, Agriculture, Armed conflict, Assistance, Assistance to the Palestinian people, Boundaries and demarcation lines, Casualties, Children, Closures/Curfews/Blockades, Covenant: Economic Social and Cultural Rights, Development, Disabilities, Economic issues, Energy, Environmental issues, Expulsions and deportations, Fourth Geneva Convention, Funding needs, Gaza Strip, Gender, Golan Heights, Health, House demolitions, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, Incidents, Internally displaced persons, Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Jerusalem, Land, Legal issues, Living conditions, NGOs/Civil Society, Natural resources, Occupation, Palestine question, Peace process, Prisoners and detainees, Protection, Security issues, Self-determination, Settlements, Situation in the OPT including Jerusalem, Social issues, Statehood-related, Violence, Wall, Water, West Bank, Women
Sources:

Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), Division for Palestinian Rights (DPR), European Union (EU), General Assembly, General Assembly Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary), General Assembly Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization), General Assembly Second Committee (Economic and Financial), General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural), International Court of Justice (ICJ), Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Secretary-General, Security Council, Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the OPT, UN Women, United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO), United Nations Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict

Entity:

Intergovernmental organization or multilateral, United Nations system

Type

Monthly Bulletin

Country:

31-Dec-2022 Compilation of UN Resolutions and Decisions Adopted in 2022 – DPR publication (A/AC.183/L.2/Add.44) Absentee property, Assistance, Assistance to the Palestinian people, Closures/Curfews/Blockades, Covenant: Economic Social and Cultural Rights, Development, Economic issues, Energy, Environmental issues, Fourth Geneva Convention, Funding needs, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, Land, Legal issues, Natural resources, Occupation, Palestine question, Peace process, Peace proposals and efforts, Protection, Public information, Refugee camps, Refugees and displaced persons, Self-determination, Settlements, Solidarity day, Statehood-related, Water A/AC.183/L.2/Add.44
Sources:

Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC), Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), Division for Palestinian Rights (DPR), Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), General Assembly, General Assembly Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization), General Assembly Second Committee (Economic and Financial), General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural), Human Rights Council, Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)

Entity:

Intergovernmental organization or multilateral, United Nations system

Type

Compilation UN Resolutions, Decision, General Assembly resolution, Resolution, Voting record

Country:

15-Dec-2022 General Assembly Adopts Resolution: The Right of the Palestinian People to Self-determination – Press Release (GA/12483) (Excerpts) Peace proposals and efforts, Self-determination, Statehood-related
Sources:

General Assembly, General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

15-Dec-2022 The Right of the Palestinian People to Self-determination – GA Resolution (A/RES/77/208) Palestine question, Self-determination, Statehood-related A/RES/77/208
Sources:

General Assembly, General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

General Assembly resolution, Resolution

Country:

15-Dec-2022 GA – 77th Session – 54th Plenary Meeting Verbatim Record – Reports of the Social, Humanitarian and Cultural (Third Committee) (A/77/PV.54) (Excerpts) Palestine question, Self-determination, Statehood-related A/77/PV.54
Sources:

General Assembly, General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Meeting record, Verbatim Record, Voting record

Country:

02-Dec-2022 Right of peoples to self-determination – Report of the Third Committee (A/77/462) Self-determination, Statehood-related A/77/462
Sources:

General Assembly, General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Draft resolution, Report

Country:

23-Nov-2022 NGO Action News – 23 November 2022 NGOs/Civil Society, Solidarity day
Sources:

Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights, Al-Haq, Association Belgo Palestininienne, Australia Palestine Advocacy Network, Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), Division for Palestinian Rights (DPR), Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP), Friends of Sabeel-North America (FOSNA), General Assembly, General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural), Physicians for Human Rights, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR)

Entity:

Non-governmental organization, United Nations system

Type

NGO Action News

Country:

17-Nov-2022 Third Committee Approves Draft Resolution on the Right of Palestinian People to Self-determination – Press Release (GA/SHC/4370) (Excerpts) Human rights and international humanitarian law, Occupation, Self-determination, Statehood-related
Sources:

General Assembly, General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

Argentina, Australia, Egypt, Israel, Palestine (State of), South Africa, United States of America

02-Nov-2022 Right of Palestinian People to Self-Determination – GA Draft Resolution (Third Committee) (A/C.3/77/L.50) Human rights and international humanitarian law, Self-determination, Statehood-related A/C.3/77/L.50
Sources:

General Assembly, General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Draft resolution

Country:

Ecuador, Egypt

27-Oct-2022 Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on oPt Chair Pillay Presents Report to Third Committee – Press Release (GA/SHC/4360) (Excerpts) Human rights and international humanitarian law, Legal issues, Occupation
Sources:

European Union (EU), General Assembly, General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural), Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)(See also - Committee on Palestine), Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the OPT, United Nations Department of Global Communications, United Nations Independent International Commission on the oPt, including E. Jerusalem, and Israel

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

Albania, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Cuba, Czechia, Egypt, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Ireland, Israel, Italy, Liberia, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Namibia, Netherlands, Niger (The), Norway, Palau, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Syria, Tunisia, Türkiye, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay

16-Dec-2021 General Assembly Adopts Draft Resolution “The Right of the Palestinian People to self-determination” – Press Release (GA/12396) (Excerpts) Self-determination, Statehood-related
Sources:

General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural), United Nations Department of Global Communications

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

16-Dec-2021 GA – 76th Session – 53rd Plenary Meeting Verbatim Record – Reports of the Social Humanitarian and Cultural (Third Committee) (A/76/PV.53) (Excerpts) Human rights and international humanitarian law, Palestine question, Self-determination, Statehood-related A/76/PV.53
Sources:

General Assembly, General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Meeting record, Verbatim Record, Voting record

Country:

16-Dec-2021 The Right of the Palestinian People to Self-determination – GA Resolution (A/RES/76/150) Self-determination, Statehood-related A/RES/76/150
Sources:

General Assembly, General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

General Assembly resolution, Resolution

Country:

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