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16 Nov 2009

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The Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility

ECCR and QPSW engage with supermarkets on Israeli settlement goods [UK]

A number of ECCR members and the World Council of Churches (WCC) are concerned that some British and Irish retailers are undermining efforts for peace in the region by selling goods...produced in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Settlements...are illegal under international law, specifically article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention…A group of British lawyers have recently released legal advice stating that UK retailers whose labelling of food products originating in settlements is misleading could be at risk of prosecution…ECCR is currently seeking to engage with eleven British and Irish supermarket chains to highlight concerns about Israeli settlement goods…only two have to date fully adopted a policy not to source produce originating in the settlements...