WEDNESDAY 22 MAY 2013 Baroness Warsi, in answer to Lord Alton’s enquiry about a UK-funded human rights training programme for Sudan, names the Palestinian Human Rights Commission as one of three participants in a joint project to provide training and supporting literature on international human rights law to the Sudanese National Human Rights Commission. Lords Written Answers TUESDAY 21 MAY 20131. Jeremy Corbyn speaking …
Dalton Philips Chief Executive Morrisons 1st March 2013 Dear Mr Philips We are concerned that dates labelled ‘Product of Israel’, destined to be sold as Morrisons own-label dates, were found in Tomer settlement. According to the Electronic Intifada article, Morrisons claimed that produce was simply being packed there. But there are no date-growing areas inside …
Veolia’s activities in the OPT and the detailed legal case for exclusion, including six “Fact Sheets”: http://jfjfp.com/?page_id=30763. Particularly useful if the initial statement of the legal case is queried. The Dump Veolia Campaign: www.dumpveolia.org.uk , including topical developments and campaigners’ toolkit http://www.dumpveolia.org.uk/activists-toolkit/. The latter includes a model letter and a model petition asking contracting authorities …
Since 2010, after vigorous local campaigns for the company’s exclusion, Veolia has lost or withdrawn from waste contracts worth over £10 billion worldwide. Important Campaign Successes in UK Sandwell Metropolitan, Edinburgh, Richmond, Portsmouth, Winchester & East Hants, South London Waste Partnership, Ealing, West London Waste Authority, East Sussex, North Wales incinerator project, South Wales incinerator …
As Veolia is a multinational with operations in many countries, this is an international campaign. Excluding Veolia from public contracts Under European Community regulations a company can be excluded from bidding for a public contract, or being awarded one, on the grounds of grave misconduct. The main thrust of the Derail Veolia campaign has been …
Annex: Veolia One Commercial Entity In 2005 Veolia Environnement’s four divisions adopted a single name, Veolia, and a new logo. As the Veolia website stated, this move ‘signalled the desire of the entire company to link Veolia divisions in a coherent way and increase its visibility’. (In 2013 Veolia changed the designation of its divisions …
The Veolia parent company is Veolia Environnment, a French multinational. Veolia Transportation, a subsidiary of Veolia Environnement, is a leading partner in the CityPass consortium that built the light-rail tramway linking west Jerusalem to illegal Jewish settlements in occupied east Jerusalem. The tramway cements Israel’s hold on occupied east Jerusalem and ties the settlements even …
Liverpool Palestine supporters held a well-supported demonstration in LIverpool city centre on Saturday 18 May. The demonstration was to mark the 65th anniversary of ‘Nakba Day’ in Palestine. 15 May 1948 was the date when Britain withdrew forces from Palestine and Israel declared its independence. Forced expulsions of Palestinians from their towns and villages by …
For immediate release Protest held to tell Parliament: after 65 years ethnic cleansing of Palestinians must end On Saturday 18th May 2013, campaigners joined MPs, trade unionists and public figures in a protest outside Parliament against the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.The protest marked the 65th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) and called on …
Download our new Ethnic cleansing leaflet May 2013 The ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, which began in 1948 when 750,000 were driven from their homes, continues today. Home demolitions Since 2008 more than 2400 Palestinian houses and structures have been demolished in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, displacing more than 4400 Palestinians, including thousands of children. Discriminatory residency rights …