";s:4:"text";s:3207:"This tug-of-war, which caused deep divisions during a special session of the UN Security Council in New York this week, has now moved to Geneva, after the UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday released a database of 112 businesses that are involved in Israeli settlements. Mike Pompeo says the United States 'has long opposed the creation or release' of the list. Official Documents and Bibliographic Databases Official Document System (ODS) UN documentation, daily journal and daily list of documents. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Report on Business Activities Related to Settlements in the oPt (Advance Unedited Version) (A/HRC/43/71) The mandate to produce the database set out by the UN Human Rights Council is restricted to ten well-defined activities.
The long-awaited release of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s database of companies complicit in Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise made the expected headlines and brought the anticipated reactions from Israel and Palestine. Read more about UN holds back names of Israel settlement profiteers .