Category - boycott

February 7, 2014

Global ad campaign urges tourists to boycott Botswana

Survival International has launched a worldwide advertising campaign highlighting Botswana’s persecution of Africa’s last hunting Bushmen.
October 17, 2013

Travel companies join Botswana boycott

Only weeks after Survival International called for a boycott of Botswana tourism, two travel companies have suspended their tours to the country.
December 1, 2012

Digital activism and the 24-hour Facebook boycott

Mention online activism and you can trigger some extreme reactions. At one end of the spectrum are people who believe the future is all about Facebook, Twitter and online petitions. At the other, those who scoff at the very idea, seeing it as an excuse for laziness and pointing out that Facebook and Twitter are powerful corporations that we should be opposing.
August 20, 2012

United Church of Canada backs boycott of goods from Occupied Terriotories

The United Church of Canada has agreed to boycott products produced in Israeli settlements located within occupied Palestinian territory.
December 9, 2011

US and Cuban church leaders seek 'normalised relations'

Church leaders from the US and Cuba have wrapped up a five-day meeting in Havana with a call for "normalised relations" between the two countries.
July 14, 2011

Israel anti-boycott law attacks free expression, says Amnesty

A law making it an offence to call for a boycott against the state of Israel or its West Bank settlements will have a chilling effect on freedom of expression.
May 27, 2011

Israel is holding the Kirk's work hostage

The Church of Scotland General Assembly agreed, under threat, to withdraw a resolution calling for a UK ban on goods from Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Paraic Reamonn says that the ethnically-defined nature of the current Israeli state, its treatment of Palestinians and what its policies are doing to the identity of Jewish people should be a matter of priority concern to Christians and others of goodwill.
May 25, 2011

Kirk boycott resolution scuppered by Israeli legal 'intimidation'

A Church of Scotland call for a UK ban of goods from unlawful Israeli settlements has had to be withdrawn because of a legal threat in Israel.
February 9, 2011

Quakers in Britain consider Palestinian call for boycott

Quakers in Britain are considering a challenging call from Palestinian Quakers in the West Bank to consider a boycott over the Occupied Territories.
November 11, 2010

BT urged to disconnect from human rights abuses

Human rights campaigners are today calling on BT to end its complicity in 'serious' breaches of international law and human rights abuses.