A/HRC/18/50 I. Background 1. The Human Rights Council, in paragraph 11 of resolution 16/32, requested the High Commissioner for Human Rights to present a progress report on the implementation of the same resolution. The present report is submitted pursuant to this request. In order to gather information for the present report, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights sent notes verbales to the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva; the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva; and the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva. On 8 July 2011 a reply was received from the Government of Switzerland. The Government of Switzerland’s reply is reflected in paragraph 7 of the present report. II. Implementation of Human Rights Council resolution 16/32 2. In paragraph 2 of resolution 16/32, the Human Rights Council took note of the reports of the Committee of independent experts in international humanitarian and human rights law to monitor and assess any domestic, legal or other proceedings undertaken by both the Government of Israel and the Palestinian side, in light of General Assembly resolution 64/254, and called for the implementation of their conclusions. 3. As of the submission of this report, the High Commissioner is not aware of any action taken during the period under consideration in response to paragraph 2 of resolution 16/32. 4. In paragraph 3 of resolution 16/32, the Human Rights Council reiterated its call upon all concerned parties, including United Nations bodies, to ensure the implementation of the recommendations contained in the report of the United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (A/HRC/12/48), in accordance with their respective mandates. 5. In response to paragraph 10 of resolution 16/32, the status of implementation of the recommendations contained in the report of the Fact-Finding Mission is comprehensively addressed in the report of the Secretary-General to the eighteenth session of the Council on the progress made in the implementation of the recommendations of the Fact-Finding Mission by all concerned parties, including United Nations bodies, in accordance with paragraph 3 of section B of Human Rights Council resolution S-12/1 (A/HRC/18/49). 6. In paragraph 5 of resolution 16/32, the Human Rights Council welcomed the efforts made by the Government of Switzerland, in its capacity as depositary of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, to reconvene, as soon as possible, a conference of High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention on measures to enforce the Convention in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and to ensure respect for it in accordance with common article 1, bearing in mind the statement adopted on 15 July 1999 as well as the reconvening of the conference and the declaration adopted on 5 December 2001, and recommended that the Government of Switzerland continue to pursue its efforts with the aim of resuming the above-mentioned conference before September 2011. 7. In its reply to a note verbale sent by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Government of Switzerland provided an overview of its efforts undertaken, in line with General Assembly resolution 64/10 and Human Rights Council 2