Prof. Dr. Peter-André Alt, President of the Free University of Berlin Prof. Dr. Tanja Börzel, Director of the Otto-Suhr-Institut, Free University of Berlin Prof. Dr. Bernd Ladwig, ad hoc Director….
Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation Dear Madam, Sir, We had occasion to write to….
Sixteen organisations from around the world, all supporting the academic and cultural boycott of Israel, have written a letter condemning the Israeli government’s harassment of the co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement Omar Barghouti. The letter is being sent to the Foreign Ministers of Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, India, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Pakistan, Sweden, United Kingdom, and United States.
On 4 Mai 2016, AURDIP, BACBI and BRICUP have written to the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation drawing his attention to the renewed detention of Imad Barghouthi, Professor of Theoretical Space Plasma Physics at Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem, and calling upon him to request the suspension of the EU Association Agreement until Israel releases Professor Barghouthi. The letter is set out below.
Call closed on May 15, 2016
Ms Federica Mogherini
High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
AURDIP views with great concern the threats that Israeli Minister of Intelligence Yisrael Katz has pronounced against supporters of the BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions). You can read the….
To:
Monsieur Laurent Fabius, Ministre des Affaires Étrangères
Rt. Hon. Philip Hammond, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science Dear Madam, Sir, On October 22, we wrote to….
On 22 October 2015, AURDIP and BRICUP have written to the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and to the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation to alert them to the dramatic situation of Palestinian students confronted by the new Israeli aggression which targets in particular Palestine’s youth and its education system. The letter urges the suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement.
Call closed on November 16, 2015
[Update, September 10, 2015] : In April 2015, a group of Palestinian human rights organizations wrote a letter to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon urging the UN to terminate its contracts with international security company G4S due to its complicity in the Israeli occupation’s prison system and human rights violations as well as a record of grave human rights violations around the world.
Five months later, the UN has still not replied to the letter. Today, Palestinian human rights organizations joined by over 220 solidarity groups, trade unions, human rights organizations and migrant solidarity groups from around the world renew the call and urge the UN to cancel its contract with G4S because of the role the company plays in human rights abuses in Palestine and other parts of the world.
AURDIP signed the letter.
The Palestinian BDS National Committee is a member of an international coalition that is campaigning for the United Nations to drop G4S as a contractor due to its ongoing complicity in human rights violations in Palestine & around the world. A similar international campaign succeeded in pressuring the Bill Gates Foundation to divest from G4S last year.
You can read about the Stop G4S campaign on the BDS movement website here and with Addameer’s new factsheet here.
Palestinian civil society groups recently wrote to the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon to express their view that the UN is failing to implement its own ethical business rules by contracting with G4S because of its complicity in Israel’s abuses of Palestinian human rights and international law. The organisations have received no reply.
Now the international coalition working on the campaign is asking for organisations to join us in putting pressure on the UN by signing a letter. The text of the letter is available to read here (and below).
Human rights organisations have come together to draft a letter to Ban Ki-moon and other key UN officers, urging them to respect Palestinian human rights and their own guidelines by ending its relationship with G4S.
Please add your organisation’s endorsement of the letter using this form. It would be great if you could respond by July 7. Please don’t publicise the letter until the final letter has been published.
The letter also discusses the role that G4S plays in labour rights violations and violent abuses in prisons around the world that it helps to run. You may want to consider reaching out to groups concerned about these issues and using this letter as a starting point for discussions.
