Human rights violations in Palestine and other OATs – Annotations to HRC fifth session prov. agenda – SecGen note (excerpts)

ANNOTATIONS TO THE PROVISIONAL AGENDA

Prepared by the Secretary-General 

CONTENTS* 

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*  This table of contents is based upon the draft provisional agenda for the fifth session of the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/5/1), with the addition of the indicative subheadings for ease of reference.

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Follow-up to decisions of the Human Rights Council

49.   In accordance with Council decision 2/103, a segment on “Follow-up to decisions of the Human Rights Council” was added to the programme of work of the Council for the first year as contained in Council decision 1/105. The Council, in its decision 4/101, decided to convene an additional session within the first year.

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51.   In its decision 1/106, the Council decided to incorporate the issue of the human rights violations and implications of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and other occupied Arab territories in following sessions.

52.   In resolution S-1/1 adopted at its first special session, the Council decided to dispatch an urgent fact-finding mission headed by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. At its third special session, in its resolution S-3/1, the Council decided to dispatch urgently a high-level fact-finding mission, to be appointed by the President of the Human Rights Council, to travel to Beit Hanoun. In resolution 4/2 adopted at its fourth session, the Council requested “the President of the Council and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to report to the Council at its fifth session on their efforts for the implementation of Council resolutions S-1/1 and S-3/1 and on compliance of Israel, the occupying Power, with these two resolutions”.

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57.   In its decision 4/105, the Council decided to take note of the deferral of the following draft proposals to its fifth session:

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