Human Rights in the Occupied Syrian Golan

A/HRC/RES/40/21View 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 2019.

What other versions does this mandate have?

20 versions · 2007–2026

This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/61/31

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2026	A/HRC/RES/61/31	Human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan	1,228	98%Compare
2025	A/HRC/RES/58/26	Human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan	1,210	97%Compare
2024	A/HRC/RES/55/31	Human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan	1,180	98%Compare
2023	A/HRC/RES/52/33	Human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan	1,161	95%Compare
2022	A/HRC/RES/49/30	Human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan	1,163	93%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

7 reports · 2020–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/HRC/61/69	Human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan report of the Secretary-General	A/HRC/RES/58/26
2025	A/HRC/58/72	Human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan report of the Secretary-General	A/HRC/RES/55/31
2024	A/HRC/55/71	Human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan report of the Secretary-General	A/HRC/RES/52/33
2023	A/HRC/52/77	Human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan report of the Secretary-General	A/HRC/RES/49/30
2021	A/HRC/49/84	Human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan report of the Secretary-General	A/HRC/RES/46/24

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Golan Heights Human Rights International Obligations Israel Syrians Territories Occupied by Israel

What’s in this document?

11 operative paragraphs

Calls upon Israel, the occupying Power, to comply with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Human Rights Council, in particular Security Council resolution 497 (1981), in which the Council decided, inter alia, that the decision of Israel to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan was null and void and without international legal effect, and demanded that Israel rescind forthwith its decision;

Also calls upon Israel to desist from its continuous building of settlements, the most recent of which is the settlement campaign being conducted by the so-called Golan Regional Council under the slogan “Come to the Golan” and referred to as the “farms project”, to desist also from the construction of 1,600 new settlement units in the occupied Syrian Golan as announced by Israel in November 2016, and to desist further from changing the physical character, demographic composition, institutional structure and legal status of the occupied Syrian Golan, and emphasizes that the displaced persons of the population of the occupied Syrian Golan must be allowed to return to their homes and to recover their property;

Further calls upon Israel to desist from imposing Israeli citizenship and Israeli identity cards on the Syrian citizens in the occupied Syrian Golan, and to desist from its repressive measures against them and from all other practices that obstruct the enjoyment of their fundamental rights and their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, some of which are mentioned in the report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories;1

Calls upon Israel to allow the Syrian population of the occupied Syrian Golan to visit their families and relatives in the Syrian motherland through the Quneitra checkpoint and under the supervision of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and to rescind its decision to prohibit these visits, as it is in flagrant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;

Also calls upon Israel to release immediately the Syrian detainees in Israeli prisons, some of whom have been detained for more than 30 years, and to treat them in conformity with international humanitarian law;

Further calls upon Israel, in this connection, to allow delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit Syrian prisoners of conscience and detainees in Israeli prisons accompanied by specialized physicians to assess the state of their physical and mental health and to protect their lives;

Determines that all legislative and administrative measures and actions taken or to be taken by Israel, the occupying Power, including the Knesset’s decision of 22 November 2010 to hold a referendum before any withdrawal from the occupied Syrian Golan and East Jerusalem, that seek to alter the character and legal status of the occupied Syrian Golan are null and void, constitute a flagrant violation of international law and of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 12 August 1949, and have no legal effect;

Again calls upon States Members of the United Nations not to recognize any of the above-mentioned legislative or administrative measures;

Expresses grave concern about the Israeli practices in the occupied Syrian Golan described in the report of the Secretary-General submitted to the Human Rights Council at its fortieth session,³ highlighting the arbitrary arrests of Syrians, the lack of due process guarantees afforded to Syrians and the unlawful mine-laying practices of the Israeli occupation forces in the occupied Syrian Golan, expresses regret at the non-cooperation of Israel with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and deplores the Israeli settlement expansion plans in the occupied Syrian Golan and Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people and other Arabs of the occupied territories mentioned in the report;

³A/HRC/40/41.

Requests the Secretary-General to bring the present resolution to the attention of all Governments, the competent United Nations organs, specialized agencies, international and regional intergovernmental organizations and international humanitarian organizations, to disseminate it as widely as possible and to report on this matter to the Human Rights Council at its forty-third session;

Decides to continue the consideration of the human rights violations in the occupied Syrian Golan at its forty-third session.

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