How Canada Voted 2024

Canada's UN voting record for 2024. Prime Minister: Justin Trudeau (Liberal).

1. “Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources” (A/RES/79/?)

Resolution adopted at the initial committee stage on November 13, 2024.

Excerpt: "Reaffirms the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and of the population of the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources, including land, water and energy resources;" and "Demands that Israel, the occupying Power, cease the exploitation, damage, cause of loss or depletion and endangerment of the natural resources in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan."

Committee Vote:

  • 159 Yes
  • 7 No (Canada)
  • 11 Abstentions

2. “The right of the Palestinian people to self-determination” (A/RES/79/?)

Resolution adopted at the initial committee stage on November 13, 2024.

Committee Vote:

  • 170 Yes (Canada)
  • 6 No 
  • 8 Abstentions

3. “Assistance to the Palestinian people” (A/RES/79/?)

TBD - This resolution is typically adopted without a vote

4. “Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem” (A/RES/79/?)

TBD

5. “Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan” (A/RES/79/?)

Resolution adopted by the General Plenary on December 4, 2024.

Excerpt: "Reaffirms that the Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan are illegal and an obstacle to peace and economic and social development. [...] Demands that Israel, the occupying Power, comply with its legal obligations [...] to bring an end to its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as rapidly as possible. [...] Calls upon all States, consistent with their obligations under international law and the relevant resolutions, not to recognize, and not to render aid or assistance in maintaining, the situation created by measures that are illegal under international law, including those aimed at advancing annexation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and other Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967."

Committee vote:

  • 152 Yes (Canada) 
  • 9 No
  • 19 Abstain

Plenary vote:

  • 151 Yes (Canada) 
  • 9 No
  • 19 Abstain

6. “Applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the other occupied Arab territories” (A/RES/78/?)

Around 2019, the content of this resolution was merged into Settlements and no longer comes to a separate vote.

 7. “Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories” (A/RES/79/?)

Around 2020 this resolution was bi-annualized, which means that it now only goes to a vote every other year.

8. “Palestine refugees’ properties and their revenues” (A/RES/79/?)

Resolution adopted by the General Plenary on December 4, 2024.

Excerpt: "Reaffirms that the Palestine refugees are entitled to their property and to the income derived therefrom, in conformity with the principles of equity and justice; and Requests the Secretary-General to take all appropriate steps, in consultation with the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, for the protection of Arab property, assets and property rights in Israel."

Committee vote:

  • 162 Yes (Canada)
  • 6 No
  • 10 Abstain

Plenary vote:

  • 164 Yes (Canada) 
  • 6 No
  • 9 Abstain

9. “Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East” (A/RES/79/?)       

TBD

10. “Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostilities” (A/RES/79/?)

Around 2020, the content of this resolution was merged into UNRWA Operations and no longer comes to a separate vote.

11. “Assistance to Palestine refugees” (A/RES/79/?)

Resolution adopted by the General Plenary on December 4, 2024.

Excerpt: "Affirms the necessity for the continuation of the work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East and the importance of its unimpeded operation and its provision of services, including emergency assistance, for the well-being, protection and human development of the Palestine refugees and for the stability of the region, pending the just resolution of the question of the Palestine refugees."

Committee vote:

  • 165 Yes (Canada)
  • 3 No
  • 10 Abstain

Plenary vote:

  • 171 Yes (Canada) 
  • 3 No
  • 9 Abstain

12. “Jerusalem” (A/RES/79/?)

TBD

13. “Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine” (A/RES/79/?)

Resolution adopted by the General Plenary on December 3, 2024.

Excerpt: "Calls for the timely convening of an international conference ... as envisioned by the Security Council in its resolution 1850 (2008), for the advancement and acceleration of the achievement of a just, lasting and comprehensive peace settlement [...] Calls for the withdrawal of Israel from the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem [....] [Calls on all states to] distinguish, in their relevant dealings, between the territory of the State of Israel and the territories occupied since 1967 [and] Not to render aid or assistance to illegal settlement activities.”

Plenary vote:

  • 157 Yes (Canada)
  • 8 No
  • 7 Abstain

14. “Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat” (A/RES/79/?)

TBD

15. “Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat” (A/RES/79/?)

Resolution adopted by the General Plenary on December 3, 2024.

This resolution renews the mandate of the UN Secretariat’s Division for Palestinian Rights, which monitors developments in Palestine, organizes meetings and events, and maintains the United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine (UNISPAL). Excerpt: "Further requests the Division to commemorate the anniversary of the Nakba, including by organizing annual events and through the dissemination of relevant archives and testimonies."

Plenary vote:

  • 101 Yes 
  • 27 No (Canada)
  • 42 Abstain

16. “Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People” (A/RES/79/?)

TBD

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