Situation of and Assistance to Palestinian Women

E/RES/2012/25View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 14a Advancement of women, published in 2012.

What other versions does this mandate have?

27 versions · 1992–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is E/RES/2025/34

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	E/RES/2025/34	Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women	1,593	99%Compare
2023	E/RES/2023/35	Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women	1,593	100%Compare
2022	E/RES/2022/23	Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women	1,593	95%Compare
2020	E/RES/2021/5	Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women	1,516	94%Compare
2019	E/RES/2019/28	Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women	1,427	18%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

2 reports · 2018–2019

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2019	E/CN.6/2019/6	Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women report of the Secretary-General		E/RES/2018/10
2018	E/CN.6/2018/6	Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women report of the Secretary-General		E/RES/2017/10

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Israel Palestine Question Palestinians Territories Occupied by Israel Women's Advancement Women's Rights

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms that the Israeli occupation remains the major obstacle for Palestinian women with regard to their advancement, self-reliance and integration into the development of their society, and stresses the importance of efforts to increase their role in decision-making with regard to conflict prevention and resolution and to ensure their equal participation and involvement in all efforts for the achievement, maintenance and promotion of peace and security;

Calls upon the international community, in this regard, to continue to provide urgently needed assistance, especially emergency assistance, and services in an effort to alleviate the dire humanitarian crisis being faced by Palestinian women and their families and to help in the reconstruction of relevant Palestinian institutions, with the integration of a gender perspective into all of its international assistance programmes, and commends the implementation of the August 2009 plan of the Palestinian Authority for building the institutions of an independent Palestinian State within a twenty-four-month period and the significant achievements made, as confirmed by international institutions, including the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank;

Demands that Israel, the occupying Power, comply fully with the provisions and principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,⁹ the Regulations annexed to the Hague Convention IV of 1907,¹⁰ the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949,¹¹ and all other relevant rules, principles and instruments of international law, including the International Covenants on Human Rights,Error: Reference source not found in order to protect the rights of Palestinian women and their families;

⁹General Assembly resolution 217 A (III).

¹⁰See Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Hague Conventions and Declarations of 1899 and 1907 (New York, Oxford University Press, 1915).

¹¹United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, No. 973.

Urges the international community to continue to give special attention to the promotion and protection of the human rights of Palestinian women and girls and to intensify its measures to improve the difficult conditions being faced by Palestinian women and their families living under Israeli occupation;

Calls upon Israel to facilitate the return of all refugees and displaced Palestinian women and children to their homes and properties, in compliance with the relevant United Nations resolutions;

Stresses the urgent need for sustained and active international involvement, including by the Quartet, to support both parties in resuming, advancing and accelerating the peace process negotiations for the achievement of a just, lasting and comprehensive peace settlement, on the basis of United Nations resolutions, the Quartet road map to a permanent two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict¹² and the Arab Peace Initiative adopted by the Council of the League of Arab States at its fourteenth session;¹³

¹²S/2003/529, annex.

¹³A/56/1026-S/2002/932, annex II, resolution 14/221.

Requests the Commission on the Status of Women to continue to monitor and take action with regard to the implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women,Error: Reference source not found in particular paragraph 260 concerning Palestinian women and children, the Beijing Platform for ActionError: Reference source not found and the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”;Error: Reference source not found

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to review the situation, to assist Palestinian women by all available means, including those set out in his report,Error: Reference source not found and to submit to the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-seventh session a report, including information provided by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, on the progress made in the implementation of the present resolution.

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