[Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited G4S to respond. G4S referred us to a previous statement provided below] War on Want welcomes the principled motion passed by the East London Teachers Association (ELTA) condemning G4S complicity in Israel’s prison system and calling on the Local Authority to end contracts with G4S...G4S provides equipment to prisons, at which human rights organisations have documented systematic torture and ill treatment of Palestinian prisoners, including child prisoners...ELTA motion calls on the Local Authority to withdraw contracts with G4S for schools in the area: “This Association feels that it is completely inappropriate for a company which is complicit in unlawful detention and torture to provide services in Tower Hamlets schools. It therefore agrees to approach the Local Authority to request that it withdraw from its contract with G4S due to that company’s profoundly unethical behaviour or to get an assurance from the company that it will cease to sell its services to the Israeli Prison Service by the end of 2015."