Human Rights Situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Follow-Up to Human Rights Council Resolutions S-1/1 and S-3/1

A/HRC/RES/6/18View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, published in 2008.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 2007–2008

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2008	A/HRC/RES/6/18	Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory follow-up to Human Rights Council resolutions S-1/1 and S-3/1	800	—
2007	A/HRC/RES/OM/1/2	Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory follow-up to Human Rights Council resolutions S-1/1 and S-3/1	—	—
2007	A/HRC/RES/4/2	Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory follow-up to Human Rights Council resolutions S-1/1 and S-3/1	150	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Fact-Finding Missions Human Rights Violations Israel Military Activity Territories Occupied by Israel

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Under the terms of paragraphs 1 and 2 of resolution 6/18, the Human Rights Council:

Called for the implementation of its resolutions S-1/1 and S-3/1, including the dispatching of the urgent fact-finding missions;

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 the compliance of Israel, the occupying Power, with these two resolutions.

It may be recalled that, at the first special session of the Council, an oral statement of programme budget implications was presented to it on its resolution S-1/1, which informed the Council that, while no provisions had been made in the 2006-2007 programme budget to dispatch an urgent fact-finding mission to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the related travel costs, estimated at $27,300 for the mission, will be absorbed within overall resources included in the programme budget for the biennium 2006-2007, under section 23, Human rights. With regard to Council resolution S-3/1, although, owing to time constraints, an estimate of the programme budget implications of the resolution was not presented to it, the Council was informed at the time it adopted the resolution that to the extent possible resources required to implement the decision to dispatch a high-level fact-finding mission to Beit Hanoun and to provide all administrative, technical and logistical assistance to the mission will be met from resources approved for the programme budget for the biennium 2006-2007, under section 23, Human rights. Subsequent to the third special session of the Council, it was estimated that $130,500 will be required to implement Council resolution S-3/1. The Secretary-General in his report on the revised estimates resulting from resolutions and decisions adopted by the Council (A/61/530 and Add.1) informed the General Assembly at the main part of its sixty-first session of the aforementioned budgetary requirements.

This statement is submitted to inform the Council that the resources required to implement its resolutions S-1/1 and S-3/1, estimated at $27,300 and $130,500, respectively, remain unchanged. At this time, the Secretary-General maintains his prior position, as reported to the General Assembly at the main part of its sixty-first session, that to the extent possible, the requirements will be met from resources approved by the General Assembly under section 23, Human rights, of the programme budget for the biennium 2006-2007.

Under the terms of paragraph 2 of resolution 6/20, the Human Rights Council requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to convene, in 2008, a workshop for an exchange of views on good practices, added value and challenges for such regional arrangements, with the participation of representatives of the relevant regional and subregional arrangements from different regions, experts as well as all interested United Nations Member States, observers, national human rights institutions and representatives of non-governmental organizations.

It is estimated that, pursuant to the resolution adopted by the Council, the total full costs for: (a) conference services to convene a workshop in 2008; (b) travel to the workshop and daily subsistence allowances of 10 representatives of regional arrangements, two experts representing treaty bodies and special procedures and one representative of the Council; and (c) a consultant to assist with organization and conduct of the workshop and preparation of the report to the Council, will be in the amount of $135,200 for the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2008-2009 as follows:

United States dollars | Section 2, General Assembly and Economic and Social Council affairs and conference management | 53 700 | Section 23, Human rights | 80 800 | Section 28E, Administration, Geneva | 700 | Total | 135 200

Provisions have not been made under sections 2, 23 and 28 E of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2008-2009 for the activities envisaged under the paragraph 2 of the resolution. Although it is anticipated that additional resources of $135,200 will be required as detailed in paragraph 2 above, no additional resources will be requested, at this juncture, in the light of the continuing review by the Council of its subsidiary machinery pursuant to General Assembly resolution 60/251. The consolidated statement of requirements arising from the continuing review by the Council and potential absorptive capacity from reduced requirements arising from the amended programme of work under the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2008-2009 will be reported to the General Assembly.

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