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Special Committee and its mandate
View(s):The United Nations Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories was established by the UN General Assembly in December 1968 to examine the human rights situation in the occupied Syrian Golan, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.
The Special Committee is composed of three Member States: Malaysia, Senegal and Sri Lanka. This year the Member States are represented by Ahmad Faisal Muhamad, Permanent Representative of Malaysia to the United Nations in New York, Coly Seck, Permanent Representative of Senegal to the United Nations in New York, and Chatura Perera, chargé d’ affairs of the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in New York (Acting-Chair of the Special Committee.)