A/HRC/RES/22/29
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 April 2013
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-second session
Agenda item 7
Human rights situation in Palestine and other
occupied Arab territories
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
22/29.
Follow-up to the report of the independent international fact-finding
mission to investigate the implications of Israeli settlements on the civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people
throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East
Jerusalem
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling relevant Human Rights Council resolutions, including resolution 19/17 of
22 March 2012, in which the Council decided to establish an independent international factfinding mission to investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the human rights
of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East
Jerusalem,
Recalling also relevant resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights, the Human
Rights Council, the Security Council and the General Assembly reaffirming, inter alia, the
illegality of the Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, including in East Jerusalem,
Recalling further the relevant rules and principles of international law, including
international humanitarian law and international human rights law, in particular the Geneva
Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August
1949, which is applicable de jure to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East
Jerusalem, and to which Israel is a party,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the other international
human rights instruments, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the
Convention on the Rights of the Child,
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its twenty-second session (A/HRC/22/2), chap. I.
GE.13-13006
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