"The United Nations is likely to publish its settlement black list prior to its 40th session that is expected to be scheduled for March 2019, a UN official told The Jerusalem Post.
The office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet is in the midst of creating a data base of companies doing business area Israelis in areas over the pre-1967 lines such as east Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and the West Bank.
But its publication has been delayed for political and budgetary reasons. Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein had said that there could be an update on the matter this summer, but no announcement was forthcoming.
The UNHRC [UN Human Rights Council] in 2016 had mandated the publication of such a list...
At The Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference last Wednesday Strategic and Public Affairs Ministers Gilad Erdan blamed the pending publication of the blacklist for Airbnb's dramatic decision Monday to delist vacation rentals in West Bank settlements..."
November 25, 2018
U.N. Human Rights Office likely to publish Israeli settlement blacklist prior to March session of the U.N. "Human Rights" Council
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet (File photo)
Date
November 25, 2018
Title
UN likely to publish settlement blacklist prior to March session, The Jerusalem Post
Author(s)
Tovah Lazaroff
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