Urgent action

Concerning the attack on Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria

Date

18th December 2012

Recipient

Right Hon. William Hague MP, Foreign Secretary

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Airbnb settlements disengagement decision shows the way forward for companies in the emerging context of business and human rights compliance
21st November 2018

[This blog has been published by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre]

Earlier this week, the San Francisco-based company, Airbnb, announced that it will remove from its popular accommodation bookings website all properties (currently around 200 Airbnb listings) in illegal Israeli settlements built in the occupied West Bank. This positive development is a demonstration of the necessary disengagement action that responsible companies should be taking so as to comply with their business and human rights responsibilities in the context of settlement-related activities in the occupied Palestinian territory. (more…)
LPHR and Al Mezan’s significant new report on the systemic denial of justice for Gaza human shield survivors
5th September 2018

In the summer of 2014, during the military offensive on Gaza that Israel code-named ‘Operation Protective Edge’, at least five Palestinians in Gaza, including a child, had their lives endangered when used as human shields by Israel’s military forces. (more…)
A humanitarian crisis in Gaza: connecting the tightened closure with the flawed Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism
18th July 2018

At the start of last week, the Government of Israel imposed a series of severe restrictions on the movement of goods through Kerem Shalom, the main commercial crossing to and from the occupied Gaza Strip, which will remain in place until further notice.

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The Israeli government is moving to institutionalise the application of Israeli domestic law in the occupied West Bank with disturbing consequences
26th June 2018

The United States NGO, Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP), has detailed the recent steps taken by the Israeli government to systematically apply Israeli domestic law to illegal settlements. These developments critically build upon practices already in existence that are raising deep concerns, as summed up in a statement on 1 June by the UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, that Israel’s ‘illegal settlement activity promotes the de facto annexation of the West Bank’.

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Israeli Knesset votes down Basic Law: Equality bill which provided for state to ‘maintain equal political rights amongst all its citizens, without any difference between religions, race and sex’ middleeastmonitor.com/2018121…

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RT @nataliesedacca The Israeli Supreme Court judgment of 24 May 2018, rejecting a petition re rules of engagement empowering use of force against Gaza residents protesting near the border, ‘is both deeply circumscribed and troubling’ - @LPHR_Lawyers submission #GreatReturnMarch twitter.com/LPHR_Lawyers/s…

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RT @AngelinaNicolao Click below to see our recent submission to the UN independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2018 Gaza protests, including an analysis of the reasoning of the Israeli Supreme Court on the Petition of the legality of the Rules of Engagement #humanrightsday #gaza twitter.com/LPHR_Lawyers/s…

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