Webinar: Settlement Economy, a human rights problem?
Channel: SOMO Research
Date: 2020-06-22

In this webinar, the focus is on understanding business activities related to illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories as a major human rights problem. Together with other speakers, Pauline Overeen (SOMO) and Gerard Jonkman (The Rights Forum) present ways to end the complicity of Dutch/European economic and political actors with the settlement economy. 

The speakers will address the UN Database on business activities related to settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the lack of transparency on trade relations with the settlement economy and public procurement in the Netherlands of goods and services offered by companies that are part of the settlement economy.

The speakers for this workshop are:

- Maha Abdallah, International Advocacy Officer at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CHIRS) Brussels Office
- David Kattenburg, Canadian educator, journalist, activist
- Valentina Azarova, an international legal academic and practitioner at Bard College Berlin and
- Giovanni Fassina, from the University of Trento