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The UN quality rights bureau has added 61 much companies to a blacklist of firms that it says are progressive successful violating Palestinian quality rights done concern ties to Israeli settlements successful the occupied West Bank.
The immense bulk of the full 214 companies, which are based successful 11 countries, are Israeli. Five of the 158 companies listed past twelvemonth were removed successful the latest update.
The blacklist, archetypal published successful 2020, was calved of a ballot by the UN’s quality rights council, which has nary quality to unit companies to act. Its main extremity is to sanction and shame businesses with ties to the settlements.
It is unclear however the inclusion connected the database has affected the companies financially.
“This study is different reminder to companies that they person quality rights responsibilities and are expected to behaviour owed diligence to guarantee that they bash not go progressive successful quality rights violations oregon abuses,” said Volker Türk, the UN quality rights chief, successful a statement.
Israel said it “categorically rejects” the publication. “This database is meant to service arsenic a blacklist against businesses that person committed nary wrongdoing,” the Israeli diplomatic ngo successful Geneva said successful a statement. “We telephone connected friends not to output to this disfigured effort to blacklist Israeli firms.”
The UN bureau said it had advised the companies of their listing and fixed them a close of reply.
The latest study comes arsenic Israeli settlements successful Palestinian areas person faced caller scrutiny.
Earlier this month, Britain banned commercialized with Israeli settlements successful the occupied West Bank, wherever it says “settler terrorists” are carrying retired “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians. France and Canada announced they would instrumentality akin action.
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