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Guidelines, conventions, legal decisions
This section includes relevant documentation produced by the UN, EU, Norway and legal decision relating to the Wall and human rights defenders.
United Nations Bodies
General Assembly Resolution, Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, A/C.3/64/L.38/Rev.1, 17 November 2009. (PDF)
General Assembly Resolution, Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, A/RES/62/152, 18 December 2007. (PDF)
General Assembly Resolution, Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, A/RES/60/61, 28 February 2006. (PDF)
General Assembly Resolution, Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, A/RES/53/144, 8 March 1999. (PDF)
Human Rights Council, Promotion and Protection of All Human Rights, Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Including the Right to Development: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Margaret Sekaggya, A/HRC/13/22, 28 December 2009. (PDF)
Human Rights Council, Human Rights in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories: Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, A/HRC/12/48, 25 September 2009 (Goldstone Report). (PDF)
Human Rights Council, Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Resolution 7/8, 27 March 2008. (PDF)
International Court of Justice, Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Advisory Opinion of 9 July 2004, I.C.J. Reports 2004. (PDF)
OCHA, “Five years after the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion: A summary of the humanitarian impact of the barrier”, July 2009 (Updated August 2009). (PDF)
European Union and Norway
Ensuring Protection – European Union Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders (PDF)
Norwegian Support for Human Rights Defenders – Guidelines for Systematising and Strengthening the Efforts of Foreign Service Missions (PDF)
International Law
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, G.A. res. 2200A (XXI), 21 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No. 16) at 52, U.N. Doc. A/6316 (1966), 999 U.N.T.S. 171, entered into force Mar. 23, 1976. (PDF)
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, G.A. res. 2200A (XXI), 21 U.N.GAOR Supp. (No. 16) at 49, U.N. Doc. A/6316 (1966), 993 U.N.T.S. 3, entered into force Jan. 3, 1976. (PDF)
Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949 (HTML)
Israeli High Court Decisions
HCJ 2056/04, Beit Sourik Village Council v. The Government of Israel, 30 June 2004. (PDF) (ruling on the Wall in the case of Beit Sourik)
HCJ 7957/04, Mara’abe v. The Prime Minister of Israel, 15 September 2005. (PDF) (ruling on the Wall in the case of Alfei Menashe)
HCJ 8414/05, Yassin v. The Government of Israel et al., 4 September 2007. (PDF) (ruling on the Wall in the case of Bil’in)
