Jordanian NGOs call on UN to boycott G4S

AMMAN — Twelve Jordanian women’s rights and human rights organisations on Saturday issued an open letter calling on UN agencies not to “reward G4S for their complicity in human rights abuses and violations of international law”.

In the letter, seen by The Jordan Times, the NGOs urged UN Women, WFP and UNDP to “protect human rights by ending your relationship with occupation profiteer security firm G4S”. The multinational security company G4S provides services to Israeli prisons, settlements and checkpoints, and co-runs the Israeli “police academy” in occupied Jerusalem, the organisations noted, citing a report by the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine.

“Your contracts with G4S are of great concern to us and the constituencies whom we represent, not least because these contracts violate the UN Supplier Code of Conduct, which obliges companies that UN agencies deal with to respect human rights and ensure that they are not complicit in any such abuses,” the letter continued.