Rights, Freedoms and Repression
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Public InquiryInterested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
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Campaign initiated to shame and pressure CRH into divesting from the Israeli Mashav Group![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Fully committed to human rights" CRH, formerly known as Cement Roadstone Holdings, "fully committed to human rights" and supporting "the principles as set out in the articles of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights" http://www.crh.ie/crhcorp/about/employeescode/english_c...e.pdf is deeply complicit in war crimes in the occupied West Bank with the holding company, the Mashav Group - in which CRH has a 25% stake - through Nesher Cement supplying cement for Israel's Apartheid Wall, IOF checkpoints and illegal colonies. Transnational corporations like CRH are required by international law to comply with international rules governing corporate responsibility with respect to human rights and CRH seriously transgresses these. Israeli colonies and the Apartheid Wall in the West Bank are illegal under international law. A plethora of UN resolutions and the 2004 advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Apartheid Wall have confirmed this. The settlements violate Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention: "The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies." Article 53 forbids the destruction of property and it is these "grave breaches;" the appropriation and bulldozing of Palestinian dwellings, orchards and olive groves to facilitate the construction of the Wall and colonies that CRH is shamefully complicit in. |
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