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JCB

01 Dec 2021 News in Brief

UK tractor manufacturer JCB breached international human rights guidelines. It failed to carry out human rights checks over the potential use of its equipment in war crimes, the demolition of homes in occupied Palestine.

That was the finding of a government-funded watchdog, the OECD National Contact Point, in November.

Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights found JCB products had been used by Israeli forces in at least 60 out of 266 demolitions in one year:

www.lphr.org.uk

Topics: Israel-Palestine
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