UNITED NATIONS E Economic and Social Council Distr. GENERAL E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/4 20 May 1997 Original: ENGLISH COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Sub Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities Forty ninth session Item 2 of the provisional agenda QUESTION OF THE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS, INCLUDING POLICIES OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND SEGREGATION AND OF APARTHEID, IN ALL COUNTRIES, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO COLONIAL AND OTHER DEPENDENT COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES: REPORT OF THE SUB COMMISSION UNDER COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTION 8 (XXIII) Note by the Secretary-General 1. In paragraph 11 of its resolution 1996/6 of 20 August 1996, the Sub Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities requested the to provide it, at its forty ninth session, with an updated list of reports, studies, statistics and other documents relating to the question of Palestine and other occupied Arab territories, with the texts of the most recent relevant United Nations decisions and resolutions and the report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories, and with all other information relevant to the implementation of the resolution. 2. The accordingly draws the attention of the Sub Commission to the United Nations documents listed hereunder, which have been issued since the circulation of the previous list to the Sub Commission's forty fourth session. The twenty eighth report of the Special Committee to the fifty first session of the General Assembly (A/51/99/Add.2) as well as the two periodic reports submitted by the Special Committee in 1996 (A/51/99 and A/51/99/Add.1) are available upon request. GE.97 12643 (E)
page 2 General Assembly reports A/51/13 A/51/35 A/51/99 A/51/99/Add.1 A/51/99/Add.2 A/51/99/Add.3 A/51/135 E/1996/51 A/51/171 E/1996/75 A/51/369 A/51/370 A/51/371 A/51/514 Report of the Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East for the period 1 July 1995 to 30 June 1996 Report of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories for the period 19 August to 31 December 1995 People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories for the period 1 January to 31 March 1996 Twenty eighth report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories Note by the Economic and social repercussions of the Israeli settlements on the Palestinian People in the Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, occupied since 1967 and on the Arab population of the Syrian Golan: note by the Assistance to the Palestinian people: report of the Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostilities: report of the Offers by Member States of grants and scholarships for higher education, including vocational training, for Palestine refugees: report of the Revenues derived from Palestine refugees' properties: report of the of the (in pursuance of General Assembly resolution 50/29 A)
page 3 A/51/516 A/51/517 A/51/518 A/51/678 S/1996/953 A/50/725 S/1995/530 A/50/763 A/ES 10/1 of the (in pursuance of General Assembly resolution 50/29 B) of the (in pursuance of General Assembly resolution 50/29 C) of the (in pursuance of General Assembly resolution 50/29 D) Situation in the Middle East Question of Palestine: report of the Question of Palestine, The situation in the Middle East: report of the Financing of the Palestinian Police Force: report of the Note by the on the convening of the tenth emergency special session of the General Assembly Economic and Social Council documents E/CN.4/1996/8 Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women: report of the E/1996/26 Commission on the Status of Women. Report on its fortieth E/CN.6/1996/15 session (New York, 11 22 March 1996) United Nations Development Programme documents DP/1996/18/Add.1 Chap. V.B. Annual report of the Administrator: Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People. Commission on Human Rights documents E/CN.4/1997/13 E/CN.4/1997/14 Arab territories, including Palestine: report of the Arab territories, including Palestine: report of the
page 4 E/CN.4/1997/15 E/CN.4/1997/16 Arab territories, including Palestine: note by the Report on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, submitted by Mr. Hannu Halinen, Special Rapporteur, pursuant to Commission on Human Rights resolution 1993/2 A Commission on Human Rights resolutions 1997/1 Arab territories, including Palestine 1997/2 Human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan 1997/3 Israeli settlements in the occupied Arab territories 1997/4 Situation in occupied Palestine 1997/6 Middle East peace process General Assembly resolutions 51/23 Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People 51/24 Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat 51/25 Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat 51/26 Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine 51/27 Jerusalem 51/28 The Syrian Golan 51/29 The Middle East peace process 51/124 Assistance to Palestine refugees 51/125 Working Group on the Financing of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East 51/126 Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostilities 51/127 Offers by Member States of grants and scholarships for higher education, including vocational training, for Palestine refugees
page 5 51/128 Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East 51/129 Palestine refugees properties and their revenues 51/131 Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories 51/132 Applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, to the occupied territories, including Jerusalem, and the other occupied Arab territories 51/133 Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan 51/134 Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem 51/135 The occupied Syrian Golan 51/150 Assistance to the Palestinian people