Economic & social repercussion of the Israeli occupation – ECOSOC report (Part I)

    Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2003^*

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* The present report is a preliminary version of those sections of the report of the Economic and Social Council relating to the organizational and resumed organizational sessions for 2003 and the substantive session of 2003. The section relating to the resumed substantive session will be issued as an addendum to the present report. The entire report will be issued in final form as Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 3 (A/58/3/Rev.1).

** Part two of this preliminary version of the report of the Council, containing chaps. IV-IX and annexes I-III, will be issued separately in document A/58/3 (Part II). The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Council at the organizational and resumed organizational sessions for 2003 and the substantive session of 2003 are being issued initially in documents E/2003/INF/2 and Add.1-3 and Add.1/Corr.1. Those adopted at the resumed substantive session will be issued in document E/2003/INF/2/Add.4. The resolutions and decisions will be issued in final form as Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2003, Supplement No. 1 (E/2003/99).

Chapter I
Matters calling for action by or brought to the attention of the General Assembly

  In 2003, the Economic and Social Council adopted resolutions and decisions that call for action by the General Assembly. The relevant paragraphs of those resolutions and decisions are summarized below.

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Economic and social repercussions of the Israeli Occupation on the living conditions of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan 

  By resolution 2003/59, the Council requested the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session, through the Council, a report on the implementation of the resolution and to continue to include, in the report of the United Nations Special Coordinator, an update on the living conditions of the Palestinian people, in collaboration with the relevant United Nations agencies.

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    Social and human rights questions: human rights

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    Human rights situation of the Lebanese detainees in Israel

  By decision 2003/238, the Council endorsed the decision of the Commission on Human Rights in its resolution 2003/8 to request the Secretary-General to bring the resolution to the attention of the Government of Israel and to call upon it to comply with the resolution’s provisions. The Council also endorsed the request of the Commission to the Secretary-General that he report to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session and to the Commission at its sixtieth session on the results of his efforts in this regard.

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