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ICJP evidence used in UN Special Rapporteur’s latest landmark report on corporate complicity

London, 4th July 2025 – Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian Territories (oPt), has delivered her latest report to the UN Human Rights Council. The report, which focuses on corporate complicity, includes evidence from the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP).

This report is entitled ‘From economy of occupation to economy of genocide’ and it focuses on corporate complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its illegal occupation across the oPt. 

ICJP answered the call for evidence from the UN Special Rapporteur on the 30th November 2024. ICJP’s submission particularly focuses on the complicity of universities and the third sector. The submission refers to UK case studies including some of ICJP’s longstanding experience working to hold UK-based universities and other UK-registered charities to account.

In particular, the ICJP submission explained the case studies of Trinity College Cambridge and three other UK based charities: UK Toremet, JNF UK and Achisomoch Aid Company. The submission details how these groups may be aiding and abetting international crimes against Palestinians, violating Palestinians’ fundamental human rights and disregarding human rights due diligence requirements. 

The submission also details the obligations of Member States, following the landmark Advisory Opinion by the International Court of Justice in July 2024, and makes recommendations on opportunities for international mechanisms to fill the accountability gap that exists in this space. 

In the section on ‘Global Retail’, the Special Rapporteur’s report referenced ICJP’s work on ensuring that supermarkets are not stocking illegal settlement products on their shelves, which is often done through misleading labels, barcodes and supply-chain mixing. ICJP has issued legal notices to leading UK supermarket chains and has worked with grassroots groups such as BDS Belfast in the North of Ireland to support campaigns for supermarkets to remove Israeli settlement goods from their shelves. 

More broadly, the UN Special Rapporteur’s report also focuses on companies that supply weaponry and equipment such as bulldozers that are used to destroy Palestinian neighbourhoods, as well as companies that sell goods such as produce from the illegally occupied West Bank and also companies that provide services, such as booking companies and investment firms that bolster the illegal settlement economy and help fund the war.

The next UN Special Rapporteur report will focus on the International Court of Justice’s July 2024 Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, which reaffirmed the illegality of the occupation. This report will be presented to the General Assembly in October 2025 for the 80th Session (UNGA80).

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Notes to Editors

  1. ICJP is a legal organisation based in London, working to uphold international law and defend the rights of Palestinians.