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Article

28 May 2004

Author:
Jean Ziegler, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food

[PDF] [Letter to James Owens, CEO of Caterpillar, regarding sales of bulldozers to Israel]

...all members of society - [including]...the private business sector - have responsibilities in the realization of the right to adequate food...there is also a concern that allowing the delivery of your...Caterpillar bulldozers to the Israeli army...in the certain knowledge that they are being used [to destroy Palestinians' crops and homes], might involve complicity or acceptance on the part of your company to actual and potential violations of human rights...

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