Palestinian children – GA resolution

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

[ on the report of the Third Committee (A/58/504)]

58/155.   Situation of and assistance to Palestinian children

The General Assembly,

Recalling the Convention on the Rights of the Child, ¹

Recalling also the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children and the Plan of Action for Implementing the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children in the 1990s, adopted by the World Summit for Children, held in New York on 29 and 30 September 1990, ²

Recalling further the Declaration and Plan of Action adopted by the General Assembly at its twenty-seventh special session, ³

Concerned that the Palestinian children under Israeli occupation remain deprived of many basic rights under the Convention,

Concerned also about the continued grave deterioration of the situation of Palestinian children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and about the severe consequences of the continuing Israeli assaults and sieges on Palestinian cities, towns, villages and refugee camps, resulting in the dire humanitarian crisis,

  Emphasizing the importance of the safety and well-being of all children in the whole Middle East region,

  Expressing its condemnation of all acts of violence, resulting in extensive loss of human life and injuries, including among Palestinian children,

Deeply concerned about the severe consequences, including psychological consequences, of the Israeli military actions for the present and future well-being of Palestinian children,

1.   Stresses the urgent need for Palestinian children to live a normal life free from foreign occupation, destruction and fear in their own State;

2.  Demands , in the meanwhile, that Israel, the occupying Power, respect relevant provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child¹ and comply fully with the provisions of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, ⁴ in order to ensure the well-being and protection of Palestinian children and their families;

3.  Calls upon the international community to provide urgently needed assistance and services in an effort to alleviate the dire humanitarian crisis being faced by Palestinian children and their families and to help in the reconstruction of relevant Palestinian institutions.

77th plenary meeting
22 December 2003

Notes

¹Resolution 44/25, annex.

²A/45/625, annex.

³See resolution S-27/2, annex.

⁴United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, No. 973.

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