UN adds 61 companies to settlements blacklist over alleged Palestinian human rights violations

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The UN Human Rights Council has added 61 companies to a blacklist for alleged human rights violations related to business operations in Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Most of the 214 companies on the list are Israeli, with five companies removed in the latest update.

Human rights council names and shames businesses with ties to illegal Israeli settlements in West Bank The UN human rights office has added 61 more companies to a blacklist of firms that it says are involved in violating Palestinian human rights through business ties to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The vast majority of the total 214 companies, which are based in 11 countries, are Israeli. Five of the 158 companies listed last year were removed in the latest update. Continue reading...