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23-Dec-2024 ICJ Order: Advisory proceedings on the Obligations of Israel in relation to the presence and activities of the United Nations, other international organizations and third States in and in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory – Fixing of time-limits: Presentation of written statements Assistance, Convention: Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Legal issues, Occupation, Occupied Palestinian Territory, UNRWA
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International Court of Justice (ICJ)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

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

Country:

19-Dec-2024 Report of the UN Secretary-General – Advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legal consequences arising from the policies and practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and from the illegality of the continued presence of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Armed conflict, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Israel's illegal occupation, Legal issues, Palestine question A/79/588
Sources:

Secretary-General

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Report, Secretary-General Report

Country:

19-Dec-2024 GA 79th Session – voting on the draft resolutions of Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the OPT and ICJ advisory opinion – 54th Plenary Meeting – Verbatim Record (A/79/PV.54) Armed conflict, Assistance, Gaza Strip, Legal issues, Palestine question A/79/PV.54
Sources:

General Assembly

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Meeting record, Verbatim Record

Country:

12-Dec-2024 Request for an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the obligations of Israel in relation to the presence and activities of the United Nations, other international organizations and third States – GA draft Resolution (A/79/L.28/Rev.1) – Revised (Adopted on 19 Dec 2024) Armed conflict, Assistance, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Legal issues, Occupying Power, Refugees and displaced persons, Self-determination, UNRWA A/79/L.28/Rev.1
Sources:

General Assembly, International Court of Justice (ICJ)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

General Assembly draft resolution, General Assembly resolution, Resolution

Country:

11-Dec-2024 Support for the mandate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East – General Assembly’s 10th Emergency Special Session Resolution (A/RES/ES-10/25) Armed conflict, Assistance, Convention: Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, Funding needs, Gaza Strip, Legal issues, Refugees and displaced persons, UNRWA A/RES/ES-10/25
Sources:

General Assembly

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

General Assembly resolution, Resolution

Country:

09-Dec-2024 Remarks by Phillipe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of UNRWA at the Doha Mediation Forum Armed conflict, Assistance, Ceasefire, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Legal issues, Refugees and displaced persons, UNRWA, West Bank
Sources:

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

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Remarks, Speech, Statement

Country:

26-Nov-2024 ‘ICC arrest warrants can help save lives, must be respected and complied with’: UN human rights experts Armed conflict, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Legal issues, War crimes
Sources:

Independent Expert on international order, Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, International Criminal Court (ICC), Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association, 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 extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, 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 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 right to food, Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, Special Rapporteur on truth, Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances, Working Group on the use of mercenaries

Entity:

Intergovernmental organization or multilateral, United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

21-Nov-2024 International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant: Pre-Trial Chamber I issues warrant of arrest for Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri (Deif) – (Non-UN Document) Armed conflict, Gaza Strip, Hostages, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Legal issues, Torture, sexual violence
Sources:

International Criminal Court (ICC)

Entity:

Intergovernmental organization or multilateral

Type

Press Release

Country:

21-Nov-2024 International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants: Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant (Non-UN Document) Accountability, Armed conflict, Health, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Hunger, Legal issues, War crimes, malnutrition
Sources:

International Criminal Court (ICC)

Entity:

Intergovernmental organization or multilateral

Type

Decision, Press Release

Country:

14-Nov-2024 Speakers in GA Fourth Committee Call Israel’s Charges of UNRWA’s Collusion Baseless Fallacies About an Agency Offering ‘Food on the Table’, ‘a Glimmer of Hope’ – Press release Armed conflict, Assistance, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Legal issues, Refugees and displaced persons, Terrorism, UNRWA GA/SPD/824
Sources:

General Assembly, General Assembly Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization), United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

06-Nov-2024 Israeli legislation against UNRWA – Statement of UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini to the General Assembly Access and movement, Armed conflict, Assistance, Gaza Strip, Legal issues, Refugees and displaced persons, UNRWA, West Bank
Sources:

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

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Multimedia, Remarks, Speech, Statement, Video

Country:

31-Oct-2024 UNICEF statement on Israeli legislation on UNRWA Armed conflict, Assistance, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Legal issues, Refugees and displaced persons, UNRWA
Sources:

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

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release, Statement

Country:

30-Oct-2024 Security Council Press Statement on United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in Near East (UNRWA) Armed conflict, Assistance, Gaza Strip, Legal issues, Refugees and displaced persons, UNRWA SC/15874
Sources:

Security Council

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press statement, Statement

Country:

30-Oct-2024 Press Statement by the President of the General Assembly Philemon Yang on Israeli legislation on UNRWA Armed conflict, Assistance, Gaza Strip, Legal issues, Refugees and displaced persons
Sources:

General Assembly, President of the General Assembly

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release, Press statement, Statement

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:

29-Oct-2024 Knesset laws on UNRWA – Letter from UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini to UNGA President Philémon Yang Access and movement, Armed conflict, Assistance, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Humanitarian relief, Legal issues, Refugees and displaced persons, Terrorism, UNRWA
Sources:

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

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Letter

Country:

29-Oct-2024 UNRWA is Irreplaceable – IOM Press Release Assistance, Gaza Strip, Legal issues, Refugees and displaced persons, UNRWA
Sources:

International Organization for Migration

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

28-Oct-2024 UNRWA ComGen Lazzarini Statement: The vote by the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) against UNRWA this evening is unprecedented and sets a dangerous precedent Armed conflict, Assistance, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Legal issues, Refugees and displaced persons, Right of return, UNRWA
Sources:

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

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Social media post, Statement

Country:

28-Oct-2024 Statement of the Secretary-General on Israeli legislation on UNRWA Armed conflict, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Legal issues, Refugees and displaced persons, UNRWA
Sources:

Secretary-General

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release, Statement

Country:

27-Oct-2024 Draft Knesset bills on UNRWA – Statement from the Chair of the Advisory Commission on UNRWA (Spain) Armed conflict, Assistance, Gaza Strip, Legal issues, UNRWA, West Bank
Sources:

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

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release, Statement

Country:

Israel

18-Oct-2024 Implementation of ICJ Advisory Opinion: State, GA, SecCo obligations – Position Paper of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel Armed conflict, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Legal issues, Occupation, Palestine question
Sources:

Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Position paper

Country:

11-Oct-2024 ‘The international legal order is breaking down in Gaza’: UN experts mark one year of genocidal attacks on Palestinians Apartheid, Armed conflict, Casualties, Ceasefire, Gaza Strip, Genocide, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Legal issues, Racial discrimination, Refugees and displaced persons, War crimes, West Bank, ethnic cleansing
Sources:

Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity, Independent Expert on international order, Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association, 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 human rights and the environment, 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 promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, 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 rights of persons with disabilities, 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 discrimination against women and girls, Working Group on the use of mercenaries

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

30-Sep-2024 Action by UN System and Intergovernmental Organizations Relevant to the Question of Palestine (September 2024 Monthly Bulletin) Access and movement, Apartheid, Armed conflict, Assistance, Casualties, Ceasefire, Children, Economic issues, Expulsions and deportations, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Internally displaced persons, Israeli settlements, Jerusalem, Legal issues, Occupation, Palestine question, Protection, Protection of civilians, Refugees and displaced persons, Self-determination, Settlements, Settler violence, UNRWA, Violence, West Bank, Women, sexual violence
Sources:

Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC), Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), Division for Palestinian Rights (DPR), General Assembly, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Secretary-General, Security Council, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), United Nations Country Team (UNCT), 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:

United Nations system

Type

Bulletin, Monthly Bulletin

Country:

18-Sep-2024 UN Palestinian Rights Committee Bureau Welcomes Historic Resolution Calling for an End to Israel’s Occupation of Palestine – Press statement Legal issues, Occupation, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Occupying Power, Palestine question, Peace process, Self-determination, Settlements, Statehood-related, Two State solution, West Bank GA/PAL/1472
Sources:

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

Entity:

Intergovernmental organization or multilateral

Type

Press statement, Statement

Country:

31-Aug-2024 2024 Annual Report of Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People to the General Assembly (A/79/35) Armed conflict, Assistance, Expulsions and deportations, Gaza Strip, Health, Holy places, House demolitions, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Hunger, Jerusalem, Legal issues, NGOs/Civil Society, Nakba, Occupation, PLO/Palestine, Palestine question, Palestine's Application for UN Membership, Peace process, Refugees and displaced persons, Right of return, Self-determination, Settlements, Settler violence, Violence, West Bank, Women, malnutrition A/79/35
Sources:

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

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Annual report, Publication, Report

Country:

09-Aug-2024 Annual Report of the International Court of Justice – 1 August 2023–31 July 2024 – (A/79/4) Armed conflict, Convention: Genocide, Gaza Strip, Genocide, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Legal issues, Palestine question A/79/4
Sources:

International Court of Justice (ICJ)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Annual report, Report

Country:

31-Jul-2024 Action by UN System and Intergovernmental Organizations Relevant to the Question of Palestine (July 2024 Monthly Bulletin) Access and movement, Armed conflict, Assistance, Casualties, Ceasefire, Children, Economic issues, Expulsions and deportations, Food, Gaza Strip, Health, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Hunger, Israel's illegal occupation, Jerusalem, Legal issues, Occupation, Palestine question, Refugees and displaced persons, Settlements, Settler violence, West Bank, Women
Sources:

Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), Division for Palestinian Rights (DPR), Independent Expert on international order, International Court of Justice (ICJ), International Labour Organization (ILO), Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Secretary-General, Security Council, 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 right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, 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, Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 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), 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 the use of mercenaries, World Health Organization (WHO)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Monthly Bulletin

Country:

30-Jul-2024 FAO Briefing note on OPT: Understanding the status of land rights for sustainable reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank Armed conflict, Gaza Strip, Land, Legal issues, Refugees and displaced persons, West Bank
Sources:

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Publication

Country:

23-Jul-2024 UN Palestinian Rights Committee Bureau Welcomes the landmark Advisory Opinion by the International Court of Justice and Calls for Rapid Action by the International Community Armed conflict, Gaza Strip, Inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, Israel's illegal occupation, Israeli settlements, Jerusalem, Legal issues, Occupation, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Occupying Power, Palestine question, Settlements, Settler violence, West Bank
Sources:

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

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release, Press statement

Country:

22-Jul-2024 UN Commission of Inquiry welcomes International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion stating that Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory is now illegal under international law Armed conflict, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Legal issues, Occupation, Palestine question
Sources:

Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, International Court of Justice (ICJ)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

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