At the 60th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, during the Item 7 General Debate, DCI delivered a statement urging states to act decisively against corporate complicity in sustaining Israel’s illegal settlements.
DCI calls on member states to:
- Ensure the UN database on business enterprises in Israeli settlements is annually updated, expanded, and fully resourced.
- End ties with companies profiting from illegal settlements, and prohibit related trade, investment, and tourism.
- Regulate companies under their jurisdiction that sustain Israel’s apartheid system, and stop using public resources to support complicit entities.
- Reaffirm the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and sovereignty over their land and resources, while condemning corporate roles in dispossession and environmental destruction.
- Read the full statement (PDF)
- Watch the delivery on YouTube