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Resources updated between Monday, November 25, 2013 and Sunday, December 1, 2013

November 29, 2013

November 27, 2013

Draft, as orally revised, was adopted without a vote.

GA Third Committee Draft Resolution "Freedom of religion or belief", A/C.3/68/L.49/Rev.1 Development

Draft was adopted with 87 votes in favor, 66 against, and 22 abstentions.

GA Third Committee Draft Resolution "Report of the Human Rights Council", A/C.3/68/L.75 Development

Draft was rejected with 76 votes against, 74 in favor and 18 abstentions.

Amendment to draft resolution A/C.3/68/L.75 "Report of the Human Rights Council", A/C.3/68/L.77 Development

Draft was adopted with 126 votes in favor, 9 against (Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Palau, United Kingdom, United States), and 46 abstentions.

GA Third Committee Draft Resolution "Global efforts for the total elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the DDPA", A/C.3/68/L.69/Rev.1 Development

November 26, 2013

Draft was adopted with 110 in favor, 7 against (Australia, Canada, Federated States of Micronesia Israel, Marshall Islands, Palau, United States), and 56 abstentions.

General Assembly Resolution "Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People", A/RES/68/12 Development

Draft was adopted with 108 votes in favor, 7 against (Australia, Canada, Federated States of Micronesia, Israel, Marshall Islands, Palau, United States) and 59 abstentions.

General Assembly Resolution "Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat", A/RES/68/13 Development

Draft was adopted with 163 votes in favor, 7 against (Australia, Canada, Federated States of Micronesia, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, United States), and 7 abstentions (Cameroon, Honduras, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, South Sudan, Togo, Tonga).

General Assembly Resolution "Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat", A/RES/68/14 Development

Draft was adopted with 165 votes in favor, 6 against (Canada, Federated States of Micronesia, Israel, Marshall Islands, Palau, United States) and 6 abstentions (Australia, Cameroon, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, South Sudan, Tonga).

General Assembly Resolution "Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine", A/RES/68/15 Development

Draft was adopted with 162 votes in favor, 6 against (Canada, Federated States of Micronesia, Israel, Marshall Islands, Palau, United States), and 8 abstentions (Australia, Cameroon, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, South Sudan, Togo, Tonga).

General Assembly Resolution "Jerusalem", A/RES/68/16 Development

Draft was adopted with 112 votes in favor, 6 against (Canada, Israel, Marshall Island, Palau, United States) and 58 abstentions.

General Assembly Resolution "The Syrian Golan", A/RES/68/17 Development

Draft was adopted with 148 votes in favor,4 against (Canada, Israel, United Kingdom, United States), and 27 abstentions.

GA Third Committee Draft Resolution "The right to development", A/C.3/68/L.35 Development

Draft was adopted with 120 votes in favor, 54 against, and 5 abstentions (Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, Samoa).

GA Third Committee Draft Resolution "Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order", A/C.3/68/L.38 Development

Draft was adopted with 170 votes in favor, 1 against (Syria), and 5 abstentions (Angola, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Namibia, Togo, Zimbabwe).

GA Third Committee Draft Resolution "United Nations Human Rights Training and Documentation Center for South-West Asia and the Arab Region", A/C.3/68/L.52/Rev.1 Development

Draft was adopted with 119 votes in favor, 53 against, and 9 abstentions (Colombia, Fiji, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Switzerland, Tonga).

GA Third Committee Draft Resolution "The right to privacy in the digital age", A/C.3/68/L.45/Rev.1 Development

November 25, 2013