UN – end contract with G4S - Email action
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Published: 07/12/2015 |
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G4S profits from Israel's brutal occupation of Palestine. So why is the UN giving them $22 million? Waging violence is bad enough. Profiting from it? That’s even worse. But that’s what G4S, a British 'defence' conglomerate, does everyday. They run for-profit prisons and detention centres in occupied Palestine -- and with over 1800 Palestinian men, women, and children arrested in the last 2 months, business is booming.
It doesn’t stop with prisons, though. G4S is cashing in from every part of Israel’s brutal oppression of Palestine -- and you can find their blood-stained fingerprints on prisons the world over. At checkpoints along the apartheid wall, outposts that secure the siege of Gaza, and in immigration detention centres in the U.K. and U.S., where you can see the G4S logo on the wall.
Despite overwhelming evidence of G4S complicity in human rights abuses, in Palestine and elsewhere, the U.N. has a $22 million contract with G4S.
Enough -- it’s time for the UN to drop G4S. Go to the website of Adameer, the Palestinian prisoner rights organization,
and send a letter to the Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to demand that the UN take action against G4S.
Jewish Voice for Peace/Adameer
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