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<h1 id="reader-title">New victories for G4S boycott campaign as
UN agencies in Lebanon and Jordan dump security firm</h1>
<div id="reader-credits" class="credits">December 7, 2016<br>
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<p>In a new victory for the continuing campaign to boycott
multinational security corporation for its role in
profiteering from the oppression of Palestinians, the <a
href="https://www.facebook.com/CBSI.LB/photos/a.383924935024875.59185880.228861463864557/1184096625007698/?type=3&theater">Campaign
to Boycott Supporters of Israel in Lebanon</a>
announced that UNICEF in Lebanon will no longer be
contracting with G4S for security work. This victory
comes after an ongoing campaign by Lebanese and
Palestinian organizations in Lebanon to demand UNICEF,
other UN agencies, and Lebanese businesses stop doing
business with G4S.</p>
<p>G4S <a
href="http://samidoun.net/2016/12/g4s-sells-off-bulk-of-its-israeli-business-including-prison-operations-in-major-achievement-for-global-boycott-struggle/">announced
on 2 December </a>that it is selling its G4S Israel
subsidiary, which contracts with the Israeli Prison
Service for equipment, control rooms and security
systems for Israeli prisons, as well as with other
Israeli state entities in checkpoints, settlements and
the Beit Hanoun/Erez crossing where the siege on Gaza is
enforced, to Israeli private equity company FIMI. The
sell-off was widely seen as a response to the growing
international boycott campaign targeting G4S as a key
player in the private-prison profiteering market and
especially its role in the imprisonment of Palestinian
political prisoners.</p>
<p>However, <a
href="https://bdsmovement.net/news/under-bds-pressure-g4s-ends-most-illegal-business-israel">G4S
remains a target of boycott campaigns</a> because it
is the co-owner of Policity, a joint venture with
real-estate corporation Shikun & Binui, an Israeli
corporation involved in settlements, to operate a police
training center for Israeli police in Jerusalem,
training police to enforce the occupation. G4S is also a
target of international campaigns because of its
involvement in youth incarceration, migrant detention
and deportation, and private security for the Dakota
Access Pipeline against the Standing Rock indigenous
water protectors’ movement.</p>
<p>This victory in Lebanon comes alongside the
announcement of the <a
href="https://bdsmovement.net/world-food-program-drops-g4s">UN
World Food Program in Jordan</a> that it will no
longer contract with G4S, an action <a
href="https://www.facebook.com/BDSJO/posts/1907270476168150">hailed
by BDS Jordan</a> as a victory in its own ongoing
campaign. <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/fourth-un-agency-jordan-dumps-g4s">Four
out of six UN agencies</a> operating in Jordan have
ended their dealings with G4S after an escalated BDS
campaign. Indeed, UNICEF in Jordan previously dropped
G4S, as did UNHCR and UNOPS. The UNDP and UN Women
continue to contract with G4S.</p>
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