Implementation of Human Rights Council resolution 31/36 (Database of settlement businesses) – Human Rights Council Resolution – (A/HRC/RES/53/25)

July 14, 2023

Human Rights Council

Fifty-third session

19 June–14 July 2023

Agenda item 2

Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General

Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 14 July 2023

The Human Rights Council,

Guided by the principles of the Charter of the United Nations,

Reaffirming that all States have an obligation to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms, as stated in the Charter and as elaborated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and other applicable instruments,

Reaffirming also that Human Rights Council mandates should be implemented and adequately funded without interference of any kind,

Recalling Human Rights Council resolution 31/36 of 24 March 2016, in which the Council requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to produce a database of all business enterprises involved in the activities detailed in paragraph 96 of the report of the independent international fact-finding mission to investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,

1. Requests the Secretary-General to allocate the financial and human resources and expertise necessary to enhance the capacity of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to ensure that the mandate given by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 31/36 is fully implemented, and requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to ensure that the yearly updates of the database include addition and removal of companies, and to present the database on an annual basis to the Council starting from its fifty-seventh session;

2. Decides to remain seized of the matter.

37th meeting

14 July 2023

[Adopted by a recorded vote of 31 to 3, with 13 abstentions. The voting was as follows:

In favour:

Algeria, Argentina, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Chile, China, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Eritrea, Gabon, Gambia, Honduras, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Maldives, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Qatar, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan and Viet Nam

Against:

Czechia, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and United States of America

Abstaining:

Benin, Cameroon, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Lithuania, Malawi, Montenegro, Nepal, Paraguay, Romania and Ukraine]