17 December 2015
GA/117345
Seventieth Session
80th Meeting (PM)
General Assembly Adopts 64 Third Committee Texts Covering Issues Including Migrants, Children’s Rights, Human Rights Defenders
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Acting on the recommendation of its Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural), the General Assembly adopted 57 draft resolutions and seven draft decisions today, tackling a wide range of issues from the global refugee crisis to the rights of the child, as well as human rights defenders and country-specific human rights situations.
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Action on Third Committee Draft Resolutions
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Turning to the report “The right of peoples to self-determination” (document A/70/488), the Assembly considered three draft resolutions.
A recorded vote having been requested on a draft titled “The right of the Palestinian people to self-determination”, the Assembly adopted the text by a recorded vote of 177 in favour to 7 against (Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, United States), with 4 abstentions (Cameroon, Honduras, Tonga, South Sudan).
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For information media. Not an official record.
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Document Sources: General Assembly, General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural), United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI)
Subject: Self-determination
Publication Date: 17/12/2015