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External sources (not reviewed)

or storage of hazardous waste.

action, including health, water and sanitation, nutrition and the safety of the population.

and human rights law, were committed by the Israeli forces during the interception of the flotilla and during the detention of passengers in Israel prior to deportation.

human rights and humanitarian law by the occupying Power.

for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Gaza Strip and bring them to justice, and prevent the continuation of impunity, in compliance with Assembly resolution 64/10.

police-contributing countries and other Member States to discuss and advise on field support issues (16); visits to field operations to review progress and provide direction to mission leadership on field support issues (20); semi-annual consultations with heads of mission on support components to assess key field support issues (48); quarterly consultations with directors and chiefs of mission support to review and assess key support components and operational issues (96); processing reports on investigations substantiating approximately 700 allegations of misconduct received from the Office of Internal Oversight Services and other investigatory entities in peacekeeping operations to enable disciplinary action by relevant internal and external entities.

policy to destroy infrastructure not because the targets constituted a military threat but in order to make the daily life of the civilian population difficult.

generally known as the “Goldstone Report”) said in a recent interview: “If the British had behaved toward children who threw stones at them in the manner that is the norm on the West Bank for Israeli security forces — whereby children are rounded up in the evening and taken to places of detention, hooded, beaten, and in some cases tortured — the Northern Ireland problem would not be resolved today.

expert committees, these bodies have resorted to visiting neighbouring countries to meet with persons who may have first-hand information on the events under investigation, inviting witnesses and victims to testify outside their country, relying more heavily on official statements and material in the public domain, as well as on informal contacts with individuals able to relay official positions.

S-3/1 in November 2006, deployed in June 2008; in Bolivia, in support of the OHCHR country office in the context of local elections and referendums, in May and June; and in Georgia again and the Russian Federation, to strengthen human rights advice to the country team in the aftermath of the crisis in the region, in August and September.

process; analyses about the root causes of the conflict, as well as the formulation of concrete recommendations aimed at preventing the resurgence of violence among certain groups of the population.

of recommendations; (c) conversion from general temporary assistance to temporary post of one P-4 post to serve as Secretary to the Working Group on discrimination against women in law and in practice, as mandated by the Human Rights Council in resolution 15/23.

settlers in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan (see A/59/747-S/2005/187, annex II).

humanitarian and international human rights law reported by the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, known as the Goldstone report (A/HRC/12/48).

come to its attention; and (ii) To inform the Security Council, within a further period of three months, of actions taken, or in process of being taken, by the Government of Israel to inquire into, investigate and prosecute such serious violations”.

allegations of Palestinian war crimes within the FFM undertaking, it would seem irresponsible and frivolous to mount an argument against the findings and recommendations built around either the claim that anything emanating from the Human Rights Council is bound to be biased, or that the report, by finding the IDF responsible for the commission of war crimes, is by the very nature of its conclusions exhibiting an anti-Israeli, or in some dramatically-inflamed claims, even an anti-Semitic bias.

political processes in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and as a first step release all members of the Palestinian Legislative Council currently in detention and allow all members of the Council to move between Gaza and the West Bank so that it may resume functioning”.