There are now more than half a million Israeli settlers living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank including East Jerusalem. Successive Israeli governments have facilitated this process, even though settlements are unlawful under international humanitarian law and are part and parcel of Israeli policies that dispossess, discriminate against, and abuse the human rights of Palestinians. But the system is not just propagated by the Israeli government; it also depends on the involvement of a multitude of businesses that operate in the settlements.
Join us to discuss a new Human Rights Watch report, Occupation, Inc., examines the human rights impact of these businesses and calls on them to end their settlement-related activities. Using a series of case studies, it describes how such businesses facilitate and sustain unlawful settlements and thereby contribute to a system whose existence and expansion is contingent on the unlawful confiscation of Palestinian land and resources.
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
12:30-2:00 pm
1957 E Street, NW
Lindner Family Commons, Elliot School Room 602
Sarah Saadoun began working in Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa division as the Leonard H. Sander fellow in September 2014, after graduating from Columbia Law School. She lived in Jerusalem from 2006 to 2010, where she earned a masters in comparative literature from Hebrew University and guided political field trips of East Jerusalem and nearby settlements. After leaving Jerusalem, she spent eight months studying Arabic in Cairo.
Ralph G. Steinhardt specializes in international law, human rights, conflicts of laws, international civil litigation, and international business transactions. He is co-director of the Oxford-GW Program in International Human Rights Law at New College, Oxford.
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