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213 UNHCR, 2005 UNHCR Statistical Yearbook, pp. 448–9. See also Chapter Two.
214 Executive Committee Conclusion No. 27 (XXXIII) – 1982, “Military Attacks on Refugee Camps and Settlements in Southern Africa
and Elsewhere.”
215 Executive Committee Conclusion No. 46 (XXXVIII) – 1987. See also Executive Committee Conclusion No. 50 (XXXIX) – 1988; Executive
Committee Conclusion No. 55 (XL) – 1989; Executive Committee General Conclusion on International Protection (XLI) – 1990;
Executive Committee General Conclusion on International Protection (XLII) – 1991; Executive Committee Conclusion No. 68 (XLIII)
– 1992; and Executive Committee Conclusion No. 71 (XLIV) – 1993. These conclusions ceased after the Oslo process began in 1993,
despite the continued protection gap affecting 1948 and 1967 Palestinian refugees.
216 UNHCR, Protecting Palestinians in Iraq and Seeking Humanitarian Solutions for Those Who Fled the Country, Aide-Memoire, UNHCR
Geneva, December 2006, p. 1.
217 The lack of information about assistance and protection to Palestinian refugees fleeing Iraq is largely due to the difficulties of gaining
accurate data in Iraq at present, as well as financial constraints.
218 UNHCR, “Palestinians in Iraq”, summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at the Palais des Nations press briefing in
Geneva, 24 January 2007.
219 UNHCR, “Palestinians/Iraq”, summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at the Palais des Nations briefing in Geneva, 30
January 2007.
220 Human rights violations arising from Israeli military incursions into the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent one in
northern Gaza and the assault on Beit Hanoun, Human Rights Council Special Session Resolution S-3/1, 15 November 2006.
221 UN, Report by the Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, Miloon Khotari, Commission on Human Rights, Fifty-ninth session
(E/CN.4/2003/5), 10 June 2002, pp. 4–5.
222 Question of the Violation of Human Rights in the Occupied Arab Territory, Including Palestine, Report of the Special Rapporteur of the
Commission on Human Rights, John Dugard, on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territory Occupied since 1967,
Commission on Human Rights, Sixty-second session, E/CN.4/2006/29, 17 January 2006, p. 5, para. 2.
223 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human rights in the Palestinian Territory Occupied Since 1967, Human Rights
Council, A/HRC/2/5, 5 September 2006, p. 10.
224 Concluding Observations of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Israel, E/C.12/1/Add. 90, 23 May 2003, para.
18.
225 UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination, Lebanon, CERD/C/64/CO/3, 28 April 2004, para. 12.
226 UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Concluding observations: Lebanon, CRC/C/LBN/CO/3, 8 June 2006.
227 UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, Concluding Comments: Israel, CEDAW/C/ISR/
CO/3, 22 July 2005, paras. 24, 34, 36, 38, 40.
228 The monthly humanitarian update/monitor in 2006 used «UN Security Council resolutions, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
and international standard of humanitarian law (IHL) as the standard for monitoring. See for instance, OCHA Humanitarian Update,
Access and Protection, Jerusalem: UN OCHA, August 2006, p.1.
229 For statistics on the number of IDPs, see Internal Displacement, Global Overview of Trends and Developments in 2006, Norwegian Refugee
Council and Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, April 2007, p. 9.
230 The Inter-Agency Internal Displacement Division within OCHA has been established to promote a predictable and concerted response
and assist country teams in the field to develop a clear action plan. OCHA is responsible for gaining access to IDPs and other vulnerable
groups; collecting, analysing and disseminating IDP-relevant information; supporting the development of the Common Humanitarian
Action Plan and Consolidated Appeal, and ensuring the inclusion of IDP concerns therein; organizing and participating in inter-agency
assessments; and convening co-ordination forums.
231 Only two agencies have a specific legal mandate to carry out protection work: the UNHCR (at the UN level) and the ICRC. See The
State of the World’s Refugees 2005, Geneva: UNHCR, 2006, chapter 7, p. 169.
232 At the local level, there should be a Humanitarian and/or Resident Co-ordinator (HC/RC) who strategically ensures protection and
assistance to IDPs. More specifically, some of the HC/RC responsibilities are to consult with national and local authorities in order to
evaluate their capacity to respond to the needs of IDPs; suggest to government and local authorities the appointment of a focal point
within their structures on issues of internal displacement; lead the process of full consultation between different agencies in order to
establish a procedural road map so as to avoid gaps; oversee the implementation of the Action Plan by the country team; and emphasize
protection.
233 “Despite agreements on putting the Collaborative Approach into practice, the results failed to match expectations, marked as they were
with large gaps in delivery of essential goods and services combined with some areas of duplication, and an ad hoc approach by the system
as a whole to the level and comprehensiveness of response. In 2003, an IDP protection survey and response matrix found that there were
systematic gaps in protection and some other sectors, that agencies took unilateral and mandate-based decisions on their involvement
and lacked accountability, and that Humanitarian Co-ordinators were not clear on their responsibilities or accountability to assess and
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