A/HRC/40/41 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 25 January 2019 Original: English Human Rights Council Fortieth session 25 February–22 March 2019 Agenda items 2 and 7 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories Human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan Report of the Secretary-General Summary The present report is prepared pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 37/33 on human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan, in which the Council requested the Secretary-General to report on the matter to it at its fortieth session. GE.19-01244(E) 