Situation of and Assistance to Palestinian Women

E/RES/2016/4View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 19a Advancement of women, published in 2016.

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

Humanitarian Assistance Palestine Refugees Palestinians Territories Occupied by Israel Women Refugees Women's Rights

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms that the Israeli occupation remains the major obstacle for Palestinian women with regard to their advancement, self-reliance and integration in 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, bearing in mind, inter alia, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development⁹ and national priorities, in an effort to alleviate the dire humanitarian crisis being faced by Palestinian women and their families, in particular for addressing the humanitarian crisis and immense reconstruction and recovery needs in the Gaza Strip, and to help in the reconstruction of relevant Palestinian institutions, with the integration of a gender perspective into all of its international assistance programmes, commends the achievements of the Palestinian Government in constructing the institutions of an independent Palestinian State, as confirmed by international institutions, including by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations, and calls for continued support of these efforts;

⁹General Assembly resolution 70/1.

Calls upon international donors to fulfil without delay all pledges made on 12 October 2014 at the Cairo International Conference on Palestine: Reconstructing Gaza, in order to expedite the provision of humanitarian assistance and the reconstruction process, which is essential for alleviating the distress of Palestinian women and their families;

Demands that Israel, the occupying Power, comply fully with the provisions and principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,¹⁰ the Regulations annexed to the Hague Convention IV of 18 October 1907, the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949¹¹ and all other relevant rules, principles and instruments of international law, including the International Covenants on Human Rights,6 in order to protect the rights of Palestinian women and their families;

¹⁰General Assembly resolution 217 A (III).

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;

Urges the international community to make renewed efforts aimed at advancing and accelerating the conclusion of a peace treaty based on clear parameters and with a defined time frame to attain without delay an end to the Israeli occupation that began in 1967 by resolving all outstanding issues, including all core issues, without exception, for a just, lasting and peaceful settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in accordance with the internationally recognized basis of the two-State solution, and of the Arab-Israeli conflict as a whole, for the realization of a comprehensive peace in the Middle East;

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,2 in particular paragraph 260 concerning Palestinian women and children, the Beijing Platform for Action3 and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”;4

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to review the situation, to assist Palestinian women by all available means, including those laid out in his report,1 and to submit to the Commission on the Status of Women at its sixty-first 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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