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16-May-2025 Amid States’ Negligence, Activists Working to Ensure Accountability for Israel’s Actions in Occupied Palestinian Territory, Civil Society Consultations Hear Armed conflict, Arms control and regional security issues, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Nakba, Occupation, Two State solution GA/PAL/1482
Sources:

Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), Division for Palestinian Rights (DPR)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

07-Apr-2025 Occupied Palestinian territory: With every new day of impunity more innocent lives are lost, warn UN experts Access and movement, Armed conflict, Arms control and regional security issues, Casualties, Gaza Strip, Genocide, Human rights and international humanitarian law
Sources:

Independent Expert on international order, Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Special Rapporteur on the right to peaceful assembly and association, Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Working Group on the use of mercenaries,  Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release, Statement

Country:

16-Dec-2024 Working Paper – submitted by the State of Palestine – Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction Armed conflict, Arms control and regional security issues, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Israel's illegal occupation BWC/MSP/2024/WP.10
Sources:

General Assembly

Entity:

Palestine/PLO/Palestinian Authority

Type

Working paper

Country:

Palestine (State of)

19-Nov-2024 Implementation of Obligations Under the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in Light of Violations by the Occupying Power in the Palestinian Territory and Lebanon – Submitted by Iraq on behalf of the Arab States Armed conflict, Arms control and regional security issues, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Occupying Power, War crimes CCW/MSP/2024/WP.24
Sources:

Group of Arab States

Entity:

State

Type

Meeting report

Country:

Iraq

18-Nov-2024 Security Council – 9787th Meeting – Briefing by Special Coordinator Wennesland, debate – Verbatim record (S/PV.9787) Access and movement, Armed conflict, Arms control and regional security issues, Casualties, Ceasefire, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Refugees and displaced persons, West Bank S/PV.9787
Sources:

Security Council, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Meeting record, Verbatim Record

Country:

08-Nov-2024 Six-month update report on the human rights situation in Gaza: 1 November 2023 to 30 April 2024 – OHCHR Access and movement, Accountability, Armed conflict, Arms control and regional security issues, Assistance, Atrocities, Casualties, Ceasefire, Closures/Curfews/Blockades, Convention: Genocide, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Prisoners and detainees, Protection, Protection of civilians, Refugees and displaced persons, Violence, War crimes
Sources:

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Report

Country:

01-Nov-2024 Joint call to halt arms transfers to Israel signed by 52 Member States and two international organizations – Letter from Türkiye (A/79/572-S/2024/802) Armed conflict, Arms control and regional security issues, Ceasefire, Gaza Strip A/79/572
Sources:

General Assembly, Security Council

Entity:

State, United Nations system

Type

Letter

Country:

Türkiye

31-Oct-2024 ‘It Is Important to Call a Genocide a Genocide,’ Consider Suspending Israel’s Credential as UN Member State, Experts Tell Palestinian Rights Committee – Press release Apartheid, Armed conflict, Arms control and regional security issues, Atrocities, Casualties, Ceasefire, Children, Colonialism, Expulsions and deportations, Gaza Strip, Genocide, Health, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Hunger, Israel's illegal occupation, Occupation, Palestine question, ethnic cleansing GA/PAL/1473
Sources:

Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), Independent Commission for Human Rights, Law For Palestine, Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the OPT

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Multimedia, Press Release, Video

Country:

30-Oct-2024 “This is not an “evacuation” but forced displacement and ethnic cleansing” says UN Palestinian Rights Committee Chair at the Security Council Quarterly Debate on the Situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian Question – 30 October 2024 Armed conflict, Arms control and regional security issues, Casualties, Ceasefire, Children, Gaza Strip, Health, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Humanitarian relief, Internally displaced persons, Legal issues, Occupation, Protection of civilians, Refugees and displaced persons, Security issues, Self-determination, Two State solution, UN Charter, UNRWA, Violence, West Bank, Women, human rights violations
Sources:

Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), Security Council

Entity:

Type

Statement

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:

08-Oct-2024 One-year of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians – Letter from the State of Palestine – (A/ES-10/1012-S/2024/719) Armed conflict, Arms control and regional security issues, Casualties, Gaza Strip, Genocide, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Protection of civilians, Public information, Refugees and displaced persons, West Bank A/ES-10/1012
Sources:

General Assembly, Security Council

Entity:

Palestine/PLO/Palestinian Authority, United Nations system

Type

Letter, Palestine letter (Situation in the OPT since 29 September 2000)

Country:

Palestine (State of)

18-Sep-2024 Advisory opinion of the ICJ on the legal consequences arising from Israel’s policies and practices in OPT, including East Jerusalem, and from the illegality of Israel’s continued presence in OPT – General Assembly 10th Emergency Special Session – Resolution (A/RES/ES-10/24) Arms control and regional security issues, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Illegal Israeli actions in occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Israel's illegal occupation, Israeli settlements, Occupation, Palestine question, Racial discrimination, Self-determination, Separation barrier, Settlements, Wall A/RES/ES-10/24
Sources:

General Assembly, General Assembly 10th Emergency Special Session, International Court of Justice (ICJ)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

General Assembly resolution, Resolution

Country:

30-Jun-2024 Action by UN System and Intergovernmental Organizations Relevant to the Question of Palestine (June 2024 Monthly Bulletin) Access and movement, Agriculture, Armed conflict, Arms control and regional security issues, Assistance, Casualties, Ceasefire, Children, Food, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Hunger, Jerusalem, Palestine question, Recognition of Palestine, Refugees and displaced persons, War crimes, West Bank
Sources:

Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), Division for Palestinian Rights (DPR), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Human Rights Council, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Secretary-General, Security Council, Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices, United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Gaza, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), 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, World Bank, World Food Programme (WFP), World Health Organization (WHO)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Monthly Bulletin

Country:

30-Apr-2024 Action by UN System and Intergovernmental Organizations Relevant to the Question of Palestine (April 2024 Monthly Bulletin) Access and movement, Armed conflict, Arms control and regional security issues, Assistance, Casualties, Ceasefire, Children, Economic issues, Gaza Strip, Genocide, Golan Heights, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Hunger, NGOs/Civil Society, Nakba, Palestine question, Palestine's Application for UN Membership, Refugees and displaced persons, Self-determination, Terrorism, Women
Sources:

Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), Division for Palestinian Rights (DPR), General Assembly, Human Rights Council, Independent Expert on foreign debt, 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, United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF), 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), World Central Kitchen

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Bulletin, Monthly Bulletin

Country:

Colombia, Israel, Palestine (State of), Senegal, South Africa

30-Apr-2024 ICJ Summary of the Order – Alleged Breaches of Certain International Obligations in respect of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Nicaragua v. Germany) Armed conflict, Arms control and regional security issues, Casualties, Convention: Genocide, Gaza Strip, Genocide, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Legal issues
Sources:

International Court of Justice (ICJ)

Entity:

Type

Order (See also - Military order - Entity listing: ICJ), Summary

Country:

Germany, Nicaragua

30-Apr-2024 ICJ Order – Alleged Breaches of Certain International Obligations in respect of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Nicaragua v. Germany) Armed conflict, Arms control and regional security issues, Convention: Genocide, Gaza Strip, Genocide, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Legal issues
Sources:

International Court of Justice (ICJ)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Order (See also - Military order - Entity listing: ICJ)

Country:

Germany, Nicaragua

05-Apr-2024 Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the obligation to ensure accountability and justice – Human Rights Council Resolution (A/HRC/RES/55/28) Access and movement, Armed conflict, Arms control and regional security issues, Ceasefire, Gaza Strip, Genocide, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Jerusalem, Occupying Power, Prisoners and detainees, Settlements A/HRC/RES/55/28
Sources:

Human Rights Council

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Resolution

Country:

05-Apr-2024 Human rights situation in the OPT, obligation to ensure accountability and justice, end of arms transfers to Israel – Human Rights Council draft resolution (adopted) Armed conflict, Arms control and regional security issues, Assistance, Ceasefire, Expulsions and deportations, Food, Fourth Geneva Convention, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Hunger, NGOs/Civil Society, Racial discrimination, ethnic cleansing, malnutrition A/HRC/55/L.30
Sources:

Human Rights Council

Entity:

Type

Draft resolution, Resolution

Country:

05-Apr-2024 Human Rights Council Adopts Five Resolutions, including a Text Calling for an Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza, Urging States to Prevent the Continued Forcible Transfer of Palestinians Within or From Gaza, and Calling on States to Cease the Sale or Transfer of Arms to Israel – Press release Access and movement, Armed conflict, Arms control and regional security issues, Casualties, Ceasefire, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Palestine question, Refugees and displaced persons, Self-determination, Settlements
Sources:

Human Rights Council, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release, Resolution, Voting record

Country:

Palestine (State of)

23-Feb-2024 Arms exports to Israel must stop immediately: UN human rights experts – OHCHR Press Release Armed conflict, Arms control and regional security issues, Convention: Genocide, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law
Sources:

Independent Expert on foreign debt, Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity, Independent Expert on international order, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues, Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, 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 right to adequate housing, Special Rapporteur on the right to development, Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, Working Group on business and human rights, Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances, Working Group on the use of mercenaries

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

06-Feb-2024 The Ongoing Genocide in Gaza and International Complicity – Written statement submitted by the Palestinian Return Centre, an NGO in special consultative status, to the Human Rights Council Access and movement, Armed conflict, Arms control and regional security issues, Gaza Strip, Genocide A/HRC/55/NGO/293
Sources:

Human Rights Council, Palestinian Return Centre Ltd.

Entity:

Non-governmental organization

Type

Statement

Country:

16-Nov-2023 Gaza: UN human rights experts call on international community to prevent genocide against the Palestinian people – OHCHR Press Release Armed conflict, Arms control and regional security issues, Casualties, Ceasefire, Children, Gaza Strip, Genocide, Hostages, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Humanitarian relief, Internally displaced persons, International presence, Jerusalem, Protection, Violence, Water, Women
Sources:

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the OPT, Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences

Entity:

Type

Press Release, Statement

Country:

13-Nov-2023 Middle East Violence Could Prompt Dangerous Expansion of Conflict to Wider Region, Disarmament Chief Warns, as Conference to Create Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Begins – News Item Armed conflict, Arms control and regional security issues, Casualties, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law
Sources:

Disarmament Conference, General Assembly, United Nations Department of Global Communications, United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

News item

Country:

10-Nov-2023 Urgent call for ceasefire, accountability, arms embargo – Letter from Palestine (A/ES-10/967-S/2023/857) Armed conflict, Arms control and regional security issues, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Internally displaced persons, Refugees and displaced persons A/ES-10/967
Sources:

General Assembly, Security Council

Entity:

Palestine/PLO/Palestinian Authority

Type

Letter, Palestine letter (Situation in the OPT since 29 September 2000)

Country:

Palestine (State of)

10-Nov-2023 Organization of Islamic Cooperation – Joint Communiqué on the Threat of Use of Nuclear Weapons by Israel, Letter from Mauritania (A/ES-10/966-S/2023/859) Arms control and regional security issues, Gaza Strip, Genocide, Negotiations and agreements A/ES-10/966
Sources:

General Assembly, Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Secretary-General, Security Council

Entity:

Intergovernmental organization or multilateral, State

Type

Communiqué, Letter

Country:

Mauritania

13-Oct-2023 Official UNRWA statement from UNRWA Director of Communications on relocating staff to southern Gaza Arms control and regional security issues, Assistance to the Palestinian people, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Humanitarian relief, Incidents, Internally displaced persons, Protection of civilians, Security issues
Sources:

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)

Entity:

Type

Statement

Country:

13-Oct-2023 UN Secretary-General’s remarks to the press on the situation in the Middle East Armed conflict, Arms control and regional security issues, Casualties, Ceasefire, Closures/Curfews/Blockades, Food, Fourth Geneva Convention, Gaza Strip, Middle East situation, Occupation, Palestine question, Protection, Violence
Sources:

Secretary-General

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Statement

Country:

19-Sep-2022 Israeli Arms Deals and Arms Factories in United Kingdom – Statement Submitted to the Human Rights Council by Palestinian Return Centre (A/HRC/51/NGO/176) Arms control and regional security issues, Human rights and international humanitarian law, NGOs/Civil Society A/HRC/51/NGO/176
Sources:

Human Rights Council, Palestinian Return Centre Ltd.

Entity:

Non-governmental organization, United Nations system

Type

Statement

Country:

Israel, United Kingdom

31-Jan-2018 Action by UN System and IGOs Relevant to Question of Palestine (Jan. 2018 Monthly Bulletin) Agenda Item, Arms control and regional security issues, Assistance, Casualties, Closures/Curfews/Blockades, Gaza Strip, Governance, Human rights and international humanitarian law, International Conventions/Treaties, Jerusalem, Living conditions, Peace process, Reconciliation, Refugees and displaced persons, Security issues, Self-determination, Settlements, Statehood-related
Sources:

Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC), Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), Division for Palestinian Rights (DPR), European Union (EU), Human Rights Council, 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 the right to adequate housing, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the OPT, State, United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG), 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:

Intergovernmental organization or multilateral, State, United Nations system

Type

Bulletin, Monthly Bulletin, Publication

Country:

Palestine (State of)

11-Jan-2018 State of Palestine Joins Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Armed conflict, Arms control and regional security issues, International Conventions/Treaties
Sources:

United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

Palestine (State of)

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