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Unilever withdraws from an Isaraeli settlement

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Dear friends,

Please see the following press release issued by the United Civilians for Peace (UCP), a coalition of 4 Dutch organizations, including Oxfam-Novib which is one of PCHR’s main partners.

 The press release highlights the decision of Unilever Company to withdraw from a factory based in Barkan settlement based in the West Bank.

 The international investment in the Israeli illegal settlement violates the international law. The Israeli settlements themselves are a war crime, under the Fourth 1949 Geneva Convention relative to the protection of civilians in times of war.

 On this occasion, PCHR welcomes this step and praises the efforts of the international organizations that support the efforts of the Palestinian organizations and the Palestinian people to confront settlements and all the severe violations of the International Humanitarian Law that Israel commits against the Palestinian civilians and their possessions.

 PRESS RELEASE

November 27th 2008

   

Unilever withdraws from an Israeli settlement

 United Civilians for Peace (UCP) welcomes Unilever’s decision to divest from a factory based in an illegal Israeli settlement on the West Bank. This decision comes in a period in which UCP and Unilever Netherlands are engaged in a constructive dialogue about Unilever’s presence in Barkan. UCP and Unilever discussed the ethical considerations with regards to investment in settlements and Unilever’s responsibilities within the framework of Corporate Social Responsibility.

 

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Remove the rampaging settlers from all parts of hebron

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  Gush Shalom: Evacuation of Pogrom House in Hebron – hardly half a job done

 The removal of the Hebron settlers’ House of Pogrom is too little and too late. This house should have been evacuated weeks ago, instead of letting it become a focus of riots and pogroms. Indiscriminate attacks on and torching of Palestinian homes, desecration of mosques and Muslim cemeteries.

 The evacuation of one house is far from enough. It was Defence Minster Ehud Barak, in his speech on the Rabin Square a month ago, who defined the concentrations of violent and racist settlers as cancer growths – but did not draw the obvious conclusions .

 

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