by NGO Monitor
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) – including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and Al-Haq – have been advocating for this discriminatory blacklist for many years to advance a BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) agenda.
The
UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) released a report on the
discriminatory “BDS blacklist” of companies doing business with Israel.
As it did last year, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights announced
a further delay, stating that the list of companies will be published
in a “future update.”
Throughout
the past two years, NGO Monitor has been playing a leading role in
exposing the biased process behind the blacklist. We repeatedly warned
that there were significant due process concerns with the creation of
this blacklist. In his report and in announcing previous delays, the
High Commissioner acknowledged the centrality of these issues.
Non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) – including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty
International, and Al-Haq – have been advocating for this discriminatory
blacklist for many years to advance a BDS (boycott, divestment, and
sanctions) agenda. This discriminatory advocacy does nothing to further
human rights, and the UNHRC should not devote further resources to the
blacklist.
NGO
Monitor’s efforts have played a central role in delaying the
publication of the blacklist for a year, when in February 2017 the UN
High Commissioner for Human Rights sent a letter to the UNHRC requesting
a delay.
Click here for NGO Monitor’s position paper (December
2016) on the lack of due process and legal safeguards in the original
formulation of the UNHRC initiative. Both the 2017 and 2018 UNHRC
reports echo NGO Monitor’s calls for due process.
See NGO Monitor research cited in Fox News and the Times of Israel.
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