Resolution 57/188
(February 6, 2003)
The General Assembly,
Recalling the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1
Recalling also the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection
and Development of Children and Plan of Action for Implementing the
World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children
in the 1990s adopted by the World Summit for Children, held in New York
on 29 and 30 September 1990, 2
Recalling further the Declaration and Plan of Action adopted
by the General Assembly at its twenty-seventh special session,3
Concerned that the Palestinian children under Israeli occupation
remain deprived of many basic rights under the Convention,
Concerned also about the recent grave deterioration of the
situation of Palestinian children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,
including East Jerusalem, and about the severe consequences of the continuing
Israeli assaults and sieges on Palestinian cities, towns, villages and
refugee camps, resulting in the dire humanitarian crisis,
Expressing its condemnation of all acts of violence resulting
in extensive loss of human life and injuries, including among Palestinian
children,
Deeply concerned about the consequences, including psychological
consequences, of the Israeli military actions on the present and future
well-being of Palestinian children,
1. Stresses the urgent need for Palestinian children to live
a normal life free from foreign occupation, destruction and fear in
their own State;
2. Demands, in the meantime, that Israel, the occupying Power,
respect relevant provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child1 and comply fully with the provisions of the Geneva Convention relative
to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 12 August 1949 4 in
order to ensure the well-being and protection of Palestinian children
and their families;
3. Calls upon the international community to provide urgently
needed assistance and services in an effort to alleviate the dire humanitarian
crisis being faced by Palestinian children and their families and to
help in the reconstruction of relevant Palestinian institutions.
Notes
1/ Resolution 44/25, annex.
2/ A/45/625, annex.
3/ Resolution S-27/2, annex.
4/ United Nations, Treaty Series, vol.
75, No. 973.
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