The UN General Assembly established this day through resolution 32/40 B, adopted on December 2, 1977, to be observed annually on November 29 starting in 1978. The date marks the anniversary of the Assembly's adoption of Partition Plan Resolution 181 in 1947, which proposed dividing Mandatory Palestine into Arab and Jewish states. The day renews the international community's commitment to a two-state solution and affirms the Palestinian people's inalienable rights, including the right to self-determination and national independence, and the right of Palestinian refugees to return to the homes from which they were displaced in 1948. It also serves as a platform to highlight the humanitarian and political situation in the occupied Palestinian territories. The UN holds special events on this day in New York, Geneva, Vienna, and Nairobi, overseen by the Division for Palestinian Rights and the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, including cultural and art exhibitions, official statements from the UN Secretary-General, and diplomatic discussions on the peace process.