Palestine’s status as a State is, as most readers know, a highly contentious issue. Following its admission to UNESCO on 31 October 2011, Palestine has been on a marathon course to accede to international treaties as a strategy to affirm its statehood, and exercise its resulting rights (See Azarov here). As part of this quest, it obtained ‘non-member observer State’ status at the United Nations General Assembly, through GA Resolution 67/10 adopted in November 2012.
On 2 April 2014, the State of Palestine deposited instruments of accession to all core UN human rights treaties, except for the Convention on Migrant Workers and the Convention on Enforced Disappearance. The United whatsapp number list Nations Secretary-General accepted that the State of Palestine fulfilled the necessary conditions for acceding to these treaties. In 2019, Palestine took the further step to accept and accede to the individual communication procedure of the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, and the CRPD Committee. In February 2021, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court issued a decision affirming that Palestine is a […] State Party to the Statute, and, as a result, a ‘State’ for the purposes of article 12(2)(a) of the Statute.’ (Para 112) Many have questioned what it means to be a State ‘for the purpose of a treaty’ (see, e.g., Ambos).
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