A/HRC/35/19/Add.1 Table 4 Overview of recommendations related to international engagement Number of recommendations Percentage in this thematic area Percentage of all recommendations General implementation of international standards, recommendations 65 46.1% 7.0% Cooperation with international mechanisms 10 7.1% 1.1% Actions conductive to peace 37 26.2% 4.0% Other 29 20.6% 3.1% Total 141 29. An illustrative example in this thematic area is the analysis of a recommendation addressed to the international community. In 2009, the report presented by multiple mandate holders to the Human Rights Council, submitted pursuant to resolution S-9/1 on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, recommended that: “The international community should actively promote the implementation of the decisions, resolutions and recommendations of the Security Council, the International Court of Justice and the United Nations human rights mechanisms, including treaty bodies and special procedures. In this respect, the mandate-holders recall the obligation of States to cooperate to bring to an end through lawful means to any serious breach of an obligation arising from a peremptory norm of general international law. They also recall the obligation of all States to ensure respect for the provisions of international humanitarian law.” 33 30. Since 2009, several bodies of the United Nations system have regularly reminded, encouraged, and prompted all parties to cease violations and abide by their obligations under international human rights law and international humanitarian law. Notably, the Secretary-General, in his latest report on the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, noted that “[c]hronic violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law by all parties have persisted,”34 and stated that “All parties must respect international law and comply with their obligations or responsibilities under international human rights law.” 35 In December 2016, the Security Council reiterated the call on “both parties to act on the basis of international law, including international humanitarian law […].”36 31. Member States have actively engaged with Israel and the State of Palestine to promote the implementation of the recommendation and to seek a resolution to the conflict. The most recent efforts included the peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine, facilitated by the United States, which began in July 2013 and collapsed in April 2014, as well as the French-sponsored Conference for peace in the Middle East that took place in Paris on 15 January 2017. 32. The international community has actively promoted the implementation of decisions, resolutions and recommendations of the United Nations, and there have been attempts by states to cooperate. This has not had the effect of ending grave violations of international law by parties to the conflict. As a result, this particular recommendation has been assessed as “partially implemented”. 33. A second illustrative analysis relates to a recommendation addressed to both Israel and the State of Palestine and is examined individually for each duty-bearer. In 2014, the detailed findings of the independent commission of inquiry established pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution S-21/1 called “upon Israelis and Palestinians to demonstrate political leadership by both refraining from and taking active steps to prevent statements 33 A/HRC/10/22 105 para.105, https://documents-ddsny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G09/135/43/PDF/G0913543.pdf?OpenElement 34 A/HRC/34/38, para. 72. 35 A/HRC/34/38, para. 76. 36 S/RES/2334(2016). 9

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