(Kohelet Policy Forum-NGO Monitor) On March 24, 2016, the UN General Assembly Human Rights Council voted to prepare a database of business enterprises in the territories under Israeli civil jurisdiction in the West Bank. Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara and Turkey's of northern Cyprus have both seen massive government-backed settlement enterprises that dwarf anything in the West Bank. The majority of the population in these territories now consists of settlers. There are also settlers in Armenian-occupied Nagorno-Karabakh and the Occupied Ukrainian Territories. In all these cases, foreign companies, quite commonly European ones, actively support the settlement enterprise. This report demonstrates that such business activity is certainly not a human rights issue, let alone illegal. Thus, the Council cannot in good faith continue its current database project aimed solely at Israel.
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