TUFP-ICTU
Sunday 3 July 2011
Belfast and District Trades Council Motion
WHAT IS ICTU CALLING FOR?
In line with the resolution passed at the ICTU Biennial conference in 2005 we are demanding –
· The right of self-determination for the Palestinian people.
· The right of return for Palestinian refugees under Article 13 (2) of the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
· The immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Israeli troops from all the territories occupied in 1967 based on UN resolutions 242 and 338.
· The immediate cessation of the building of illegal settlements in the occupied territories as expressed in UN resolution 465.
· The immediate dismantling of the Apartheid wall.
WHAT CAN TRADE UNIONISTS DO TO HELP?
- Affiliate to TUFP-ICTU - see address below.
- Join the international boycott of Israeli goods and services - economic, sporting, cultural and academic and the campaign for divestment from companies supporting the Israeli state.
- Write to your MEP demanding that the Euro-Med preferential trading agreement with the Apartheid regime in Israel is ended.
- Put motions to your own union conferences calling for justice for Palestine
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