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 Secretary­General

1. In paragraph 9 of its resolution 1997/1, 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-third session on 18 April 1997.

General Assembly reports and notes

A/52/13

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 1996 to 30 June 1997

A/52/35

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

A/52/131

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 21 September to 31 December 1996

A/52/131/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 30 April 1997

A/52/131/Add.2

Twenty-ninth report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories:  note by the Secretary-General

A/52/159-E/1997/69

Assistance to the Palestinian people:  report of the Secretary-General

A/52/172-E/1997/71

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 Secretary-General

A/52/372

Palestine refugees' properties and their revenues:  report of the Secretary-General

A/52/415

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

A/52/423

Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostilities:  report of the Secretary-General

A/52/467

The situation in the Middle East:  report of the Secretary-General

A/52/550

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 51/135)

A/52/551

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 51/132)

A/52/552

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 51/134)

A/52/553

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 51/131)

A/52/581-S/1997/866

Report of the Secretary-General submitted in accordance with General Assembly resolution 51/26 of 4 December 1996 on the question of Palestine

A/ES-10/6/Add.1-S/1997/494/Add.1

Report of the Secretary-General submitted in accordance with General Assembly resolution ES-10/2

A/ES-10/6/Corr.1-S/1997/494/Corr.1

Report of the Secretary-General submitted in accordance with General Assembly resolution ES-10/2

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