UN General Assembly Resolution 2443

Summary

The General Assembly resolution of 19 December 1968 which establishes the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories — a Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories, composed of three Member States appointed by the Assembly’s President — and requests Israel to receive it and co-operate with it, the Committee to report to the Secretary-General (Resolution 2443 (XXIII): Respect for and implementation of human rights in occupied territories (19 December 1968), PDF p.1).

Its preamble is guided by the Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, bears in mind the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 12 August 1949, and recalls Security Council resolution 237 (1967), General Assembly resolutions 2252 (ES-V) and 2341 B (XXII), Commission on Human Rights resolution 6 (XXIV) and Economic and Social Council resolution 1336 (XLIV), which called on Israel to facilitate the return of inhabitants who fled since the outbreak of hostilities, the Commission’s telegram of 8 March 1968 on destroying homes of the Arab civilian population, Security Council resolution 259 (1968), and the International Conference on Human Rights resolution I of 7 May 1968 affirming the inalienable rights of inhabitants who left their homes to return home, recover their property and homes and rejoin their families (Resolution 2443 (XXIII): Respect for and implementation of human rights in occupied territories (19 December 1968), PDF p.1).
The Secretary-General is requested to provide the Committee all necessary facilities for its task (PDF p.1).
The file gives no vote figures, does not name the three Member States, and does not name or bound the occupied territories.

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aliases	Resolution 2443, Resolution 2443 (XXIII)