Human rights situation in the OPT – CHR – SecGen note

QUESTION OF THE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE

OCCUPIED ARAB TERRITORIES, INCLUDING PALESTINE

Note by the Secretary-General

1. In paragraph 7 of its resolution 1996/3, the Commission on Human Rights requested the Secretary-General to provide it with all United Nations reports issued between sessions of the Commission that deal with the conditions in which the citizens of the Palestinian and other occupied Arab territories are living under the Israeli occupation.

2. The Secretary-General accordingly draws the attention of the Commission to the United Nations reports listed hereunder, which have been issued since the closure of its fifty-second session on 26 April 1996.

General Assembly reports and notes

A/51/13

Report of the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East for the period 1 July 1995 to 30 June 1996

A/51/35

Report of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People

A/51/99

Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories for the period 19 August to 31 December 1995

A/51/99/Add.1

Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories for the period 1 January to 31 March 1996

A/51/99/Add.2

Twenty-eighth report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories

A/51/99/Add.3

Note by the Secretary­General

A/51/135-E/1996/51

Economic and social repercussions of the Israeli settlements on the Palestinian People in the Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, occupied since 1967 and on the Arab population of the Syrian Golan:  note by the Secretary­General

A/51/171-E/1996/75

Assistance to the Palestinian people:  report of the Secretary­General

A/51/369

Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostilities:  report of the Secretary­General

A/51/370

Offers by Member States of grants and scholarships for higher education, including vocational training, for Palestine refugees:  report of the Secretary­General

A/51/371

Revenues derived from Palestine refugees' properties:  report of the Secretary­General

A/51/514

Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories:  report of the Secretary-General (in pursuance of General Assembly resolution 50/29 A)

A/51/516

Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories:  report of the Secretary­General (in pursuance of General Assembly resolution 50/29 B)

A/51/517

Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories:  report of the Secretary­General (in pursuance of General Assembly resolution 50/29 C)

A/51/518

Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories:  report of the Secretary­General (in pursuance of General Assembly resolution 50/29 D)

A/51/678­S/1996/953

Situation in the Middle East; Question of Palestine:  report of the Secretary­General

A/50/725­S/1995/530

Question of Palestine:  The situation in the Middle East:  report of the Secretary­General

A/50/763

Financing of the Palestinian Police Force:  report of the Secretary­General

Economic and Social Council documents

E/CN.6/1996/8

Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women: report of the Secretary­General

E/1996/26­E/CN.6/1996/15

Commission on the Status of Women.  Report on its fortieth session (New York, 11­22 March 1996)

United Nations Development Programme documents

DP/1996/18/Add.1, Chap.V.B

Annual report of the Administrator:  Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People.

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