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• 39 UK parliamentarians sign letter submitted to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, urging her to immediately publish the UN database listing companies involved in settlement-related activities
  26th September 2019
• Open Letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet: Release of the United Nations Database of Businesses Engaged in Activities Related to Israeli Settlements
  29th August 2019
• LPHR briefing on the impending demolition of the Palestinian community of Khan al-Ahmar in the occupied West Bank and the forcible transfer of its residents
  30th October 2018
• LPHR submits letter to the UK company, JCB, raising serious legal and human rights concerns about their involvement in the imminent demolition of Khan al-Ahmar
  21st August 2018
• LPHR Q&A: What’s happened to the UN Business and Human Rights Database for companies involved in settlement-related activities?
  27th July 2018
• Joint Open Letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights following his Office’s Report on the UN Database of Businesses Involved in Settlement Activities
  22nd February 2018
• LPHR briefing: UK Government’s position on the UN business and human rights database
  12th January 2018
• LPHR publishes briefing to local authorities on pensions investment and public procurement decision-making in relation to companies operating in the occupied Palestinian territory and/or Israel
  17th July 2017
• LPHR welcomes G4S’ completion of sale of G4S Israel as being an act in accordance with its business and human rights responsibilities
  30th June 2017
• LPHR statement on G4S’ striking omission of adverse human rights findings in its latest Corporate Social Responsibility report ahead of its Annual General Meeting
  23rd May 2017