Question of the human rights of all persons subjected to any form of detention or imprisonment.

1985/15. Question of the human rights of all persons subjected to ally form of detention or imprisonment[1]56

The Commission on Human Rights, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations as well as the principles and provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Bearing in mind the provisions of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949[2]57 and of The Hague Convention of 1907,[3]58 Recalling General Assembly resolutions 2674 (XXV) and 2675 (XXV) of 9 December 1970 as well as all relevant resolutions on the promotion of the respect of human rights in armed conflicts, Deeply alarmed by the situation of Palestinian, Lebanese and other detainees held by Israel as a result of its invasion of Lebanon and continued occupation of Lebanese territories,

1. Strongly condemns Israel for its policies of ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons;

2. Strongly reaffirms that the fundamental rights established by international law and formulated in international instruments remain fully applicable in cases of armed conflict;

3. Urges Israel to recognize, in accordance with the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, of 12 August 1949,[4]59 the status of prisoners of war for all combatants captured in the course of that war, and to treat them accordingly;

4. Urges Israel to release immediately all civilians arbitrarily detained since the beginning of that war, as well as those that Israel rearrested and detained again in Ansar Camp, thereby violating the agreement on the exchange of prisoners concluded with the International Committee of the Red Cross in November 1983, and to release the 125 prisoners it transferred from Ansar Camp to Atlit prison on the eve of the implementation of the above-mentioned agreement on the exchange of prisoners;

5. Urges Israel to co-operate with the International Committee of the Red Cross and allow it to visit all detainees, in all the detention centres under its control;

6. Urges Israel to ensure protection, in conformity with the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949,[5]60 and The Hague Convention of 1907, for Palestinian civilians, including the released detainees, in the areas under its occupation;

7. Calls upon all parties to the conflict to furnish the International Committee of the Red Cross with all available information concerning persons who are missing or who disappeared following the invasion of Lebanon by Israel;

8. Requests the Secretary-General to make available all information concerning this matter;

9. Decides to place this matter on the provisional agenda of its forty-second session under the item "Question of the human rights of all persons subjected to any form of detention or imprisonment".

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[1]56 Adopted at the 51st meeting, on 11 March 1985, by a roll-call vote of 32 to 1, with 9 abstentions. See chap. X. [2]57 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970-973. [3]58 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Hague Conventions and Declarations of 1899 and 1907 (New York, Oxford University Press, 1915), p. 100. [4]59 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, No. 972, p.135. [5]60 Ibid., No. 973, p. 287.