Updates from the palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC): Posted by UN News Centre

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An independent United Nations human rights expert today warned that financial institutions and real estate companies involved with housing settlements in occupied Palestinian territory – which are considered illegal under international law – may be held criminally accountable.

Addressing journalists at UN Headquarters, the Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Richard Falk, reiterated that the settlements are unlawful according to the Fourth Geneva Convention.

He said that his office has been trying to inform companies, among them the European banking gr

October 30, 2013