The Human Rights Council adopted a resolution calling on the Secretary-General of the United Nations to provide financial, human and technical resources to strengthen the Office of the High Commissioner, to update the list of companies operating in the settlements, to delete the names of companies whose activities have been frozen, and to add the names of companies that have undertaken activities in the settlements.

The Human Rights Council decided, during the vote it held at its fifty-third session today, Friday, to keep this issue under consideration.

The text of the resolution stated: Guided by the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the Human Rights Council reaffirms that all States have the obligation to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms, as stipulated in the Charter and as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenants on Human Rights. And other applicable instruments.

  Reaffirming also that the mandates of the Human Rights Council should be implemented and adequately funded without interference of any kind, and 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 prepare a database of all businesses involved in the activities detailed in paragraph 96 of the Independent International Truth Report - a mission to investigate the effects of 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 strengthen the capacity of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to ensure that the mandate granted 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 Annual updates to the database include adding and deleting companies, and submitting the database on an annual basis to the Council starting at its fifty-seventh session.

2- Decides to keep the matter under consideration.