End all business in Israeli settlements, says Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch is calling on all corporations to completely end their business activities in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem. In a report published Tuesday, the New York-based group is also urging governments to withhold aid to Israel.
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The call follows a visit today with diplomats from 17 countries* to the Palestinian Bedouin community of Abu Nuwar, the site of recent demolitions and aid confiscations by the Israeli authorities. Twenty-six Palestine refugees, among them 18 children, including four with disabilities, were displaced on 6 January 2016 following the destruction of their homes, and other basic structures. On 10 and 14 January 2016, Israeli authorities confiscated eight donor-funded residential tents that had been provided to the families as post-demolition humanitarian response.
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G4S probeert "zorg en welzijn" te bieden aan gemeenten; Hollands Kroon zegt 'Nee'
Gemeente Hollands Kroon zegt 'nee' tegen G4S DocP feliciteert GroenLinks met de uitkomst van de besluitvorming in Hollands Kroon rond de aanbesteding van zorgtaken, waarbij G4S gegadigde was. Deze Noord-Hollandse gemeente heeft bij zijn selectie van bedrijven voor de levering van zorgdiensten G4S op het laatste moment uit de boot laten vallen.
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More U.S. academic groups join boycott of Israel - and critics push back
In the wake of recent action by two U.S.-based scholarly organizations to join the Palestinian-led boycott of Israel's academic institutions, the board of the Association of American Universities has issued a statement reminding them that any such boycott "directly violates academic freedom." In the past few months, two U.S.
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