Ensuring Accountability and Justice for All Violations of International Law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem

A/HRC/RES/29/25View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 7 Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories, published in 2015.

What other versions does this mandate have?

6 versions · 2015–2020

This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/43/3

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2020	A/HRC/RES/43/3	Ensuring accountability and justice for all violations of international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem	1,510	74%Compare
2019	A/HRC/RES/40/13	Ensuring accountability and justice for all violations of international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem	1,637	79%Compare
2018	A/HRC/RES/37/37	Ensuring accountability and justice for all violations of international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem	1,436	96%Compare
2017	A/HRC/RES/34/28	Ensuring accountability and justice for all violations of international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem	1,408	72%Compare
2016	A/HRC/RES/31/35	Ensuring accountability and justice for all violations of international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem	1,325	64%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

9 subjects

Accountability Administration of Justice Criminal Justice East Jerusalem (State of Palestine)Human Rights Violations International Humanitarian Law International Law International Obligations Territories Occupied by Israel

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the report of the independent commission of inquiry on the 2014 Gaza conflict;2

Calls upon all duty bearers and United Nations bodies to pursue the implementation of all recommendations contained in the report of the commission of inquiry, in accordance with their respective mandates;

Notes the importance of the work of the commission of inquiry and of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict of 2009 and the information collected regarding grave violations in support of future accountability efforts, in particular, information on alleged perpetrators of violations of international law;

Emphasizes the need to ensure that all those responsible for violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law are held to account through appropriate fair and independent domestic or international criminal justice mechanisms, and to ensure the provision of effective remedy to all victims, including reparations, and stresses the need to pursue practical steps towards these goals;

Calls upon the parties concerned to cooperate fully with the preliminary examination of the International Criminal Court and with any subsequent investigation that may be opened;

Calls upon all States to promote compliance with human rights obligations and all High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention to respect, and to ensure respect for, international humanitarian law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, in accordance with article 1 common to the Geneva Conventions, and to fulfil their obligations under articles 146, 147 and 148 of the said Convention with regard to penal sanctions, grave breaches and the responsibilities of the High Contracting Parties;

Recommends that the General Assembly remain apprised of the matter until it is satisfied that appropriate action with regard to implementing the recommendations made by the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict in its report has been or is being taken appropriately at the domestic or international levels to ensure justice for victims and accountability for perpetrators;

Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to present, as part of the reporting requested by the Human Rights Council in its resolutions S-9/1 and S-12/1, a report on the implementation of the present resolution and of the recommendations contained in the reports of the independent commission of inquiry on the 2014 Gaza conflict and of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, to the Council at its thirty-first session;

Decides to remain seized of the matter.

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