External Reports
- Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment 19, The right to social security
- HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN PALESTINE AND OTHER OCCUPIED ARAB TERRITORIES , John Dugard, 21 January 2008
- Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Gaza Closure: Situation Report, 29 January 2008
- IMPLEMENTATION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION 60/251, OF 15 MARCH 2006 ENTITLED “HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL”
- HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DECIDES TO URGENTLY DISPATCH A HIGH-LEVEL FACT-FINDING MISSION TO BEIT HANOUN
- UN EXPERT URGES ISRAEL TO STOP DESTRUCTION OF HOUSES AND INFRASTRUCTURES IN GAZA, CALLS FOR MILITARY SANCTIONS, 10/11/2006
- UNRWA strongly condemns Israeli military operations in Beit Hanoun
- Expert on Human Rights in occupied Palestinian territories says urgent Security Council action needed on situation in Gaza
- REPORT OF THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON THE SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES OCCUPIED SINCE 1967
- SecGen's statement on the situation in the Gaza Strip - Press release, 8 July 2006
- Statement by the United Nations Agencies working in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, 8 July 2006
- Israeli occupation - Letter from Palestine
- UN HEALTH RIGHTS EXPERT CALLS FOR INDEPENDENT ENQUIRY INTO ALLEGED WAR CRIME IN GAZA
- Statement by the United Nations Agencies working in the occupied Palestinian territory, 8th July 2006
- Question of the Violation of Human Rights in the Occupied Arab Territories, including Palestine
- CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS, THE QUESTIONS OF TORTURE AND DETENTION
- INTEGRATION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND THE GENDER PRESPECTIVE: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
- CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE QUESTIONS OF INDEPENDENCE OF THE JUDICIARY, ADMINISTRATION OD JUSTICE, IMPUNITY
- ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS
The right to education - ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS
Effects of structural adjustment policies and foreign debt on the full enjoyment of human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights - CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS
The right to a remedy and reparation for victims of violations of international human rights and humanitarian law
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment 19, The right to social security (art. 9) (Thirty-ninth session, 2007), U.N. Doc. E/C.12/GC/19 (2008).
HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN PALESTINE AND OTHER OCCUPIED ARAB TERRITORIES
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, John Dugard
On 18 January, following a surge in conflict between the IDF and armed Palestinians, Israel closed all crossings from Israel into Gaza, cutting it off from all supplies of food, medicine and fuel including humanitarian aid.
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, John Dugard
Human Rights Council, AFTERNOON 15 November 2006
Calls for Urgent International Action to End Gross Violations of Palestinians in Occupied Territory
statement of UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing urging Israel to stop destruction of homes and infrastructure, and calling for military sanctions, 10/11/2006, PDF copy
Gaza -- UNRWA's Commissioner-General Karen AbuZayd expressed shock and dismay at the killing of yet more Palestine refugees, many of them women and children, in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun this morning.
Special Rapporteur on human rights in the OPT - statement on Israeli military operation in Gaza - OHCHR press release 08/11/2006
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967, Prof. John Dugard, on his recent visit to OPT and Israel, 09-17 June 2006, in both English and Arabic.
SecGen's statement on the situation in the Gaza Strip - Press release, 8 July 2006
Statement by the United Nations Agencies working in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, 8 July 2006
Identical letters dated 20 July 2006 from the Chargé d'affaires a.i. of the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),19 July 2006
UNITED NATIONS
Press Release
The United Nations humanitarian agencies believe that the facts on the ground speak for themselves and carry their own imperatives to all parties. Unless urgent action is taken, we are facing a humanitarian crisis that will have far reaching consequences for the communities we work in and the institutions we work through.
written statement submitted by the Habitat International Coalition and Al Mezan center for Human Rights, E/CN.4/2006/NGO/129
Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the question of turture, Theo van Boven
Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Yakin Ertürk
Addeun,,Mission to Occupied Palestinian Territory
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Leandro Despouy
Report submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Mr. Vernor Muñoz Villalobos
Report submitted by Mr. Bernards Mudho, independent expert on the effects of structural adjustment policies and foreign debt on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights
Note by high commissioner for human rights
•Written
statement submitted by (HIC) and Al Mezan Center
•Budget Conference
•The Israel's Restrictions on Palestinian Right of Movement at Rafah Crossing
•The Bait Lahia Treatment Plant and Human Rights
•The Outrages of Human Dignity at Israeli Checkpointsin Gaza Strip
•International Community Must Act to Stop Killing Palestinian Children.
•OPERATION RAINBOW
•Budget Conference
•The Israel's Restrictions on Palestinian Right of Movement at Rafah Crossing
•The Bait Lahia Treatment Plant and Human Rights
•The Outrages of Human Dignity at Israeli Checkpointsin Gaza Strip
•International Community Must Act to Stop Killing Palestinian Children.
•OPERATION RAINBOW
•Question
of the violation of human rights in the occupied Arab territories, including
Palestine
•International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
•Universal Declaration of Human Rights
•Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.
•Charter of the United Nations
•UNDP, Arab Human Development Report 2003
•The Barcelona Declaration
•International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
•Universal Declaration of Human Rights
•Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.
•Charter of the United Nations
•UNDP, Arab Human Development Report 2003
•The Barcelona Declaration