September 2021, Norges Bank The Executive Board has decided to exclude the companies Elco Ltd, Ashtrom Group Ltd and Electra Ltd due to unacceptable risk
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Norwegian oil fund excludes two Israeli companies for West Bank activities
$1.3tn group cites risk linked to settlements that cause ‘significant harm’ to Palestinians 20 May 2021, Financial Times The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund has
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Lothian Pension Fund divests from Bank Hapoalim
Lothian Pension Fund, the second largest local authority pension fund in Scotland with 84,000 members and £8bn of assets, has divested from Israeli Bank Hapoalim.
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Strathclyde Pension Fund drops complicit companies from asset list
Media Release: Campaigners welcome Strathclyde Pension Fund removal of complicit companies from asset list 9 March 2021 Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) has welcomed news
Read morePension funds can divest from Palestinian occupation firms, court rules
Billy Briggs, The Ferret, May 1, 2020 Human rights campaigners in Scotland have welcomed a ruling by the UK’s Supreme Court that council pension funds
Read moreRelease of long-delayed UN settlement database significant step towards holding Israel accountable
Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), February 12, 2020 Palestinian civil society welcomes this long-awaited UN list of companies that are complicit in Israel’s illegal settlement
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Strathclyde Pension Fund continues to invest in complicit companies – campaigners highlight “deeply flawed” engagement process
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign sent the following letter to members of the Strathclyde Pension Fund Committee in December, but have not received a response three
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Tayside Pension Fund drops Bank Hapoalim
7 February 2019 Nya Bashir, Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Dundee SPSC welcomes the confirmation from Dundee City Council that Tayside Pension Fund no longer invests
Read moreNo policy change regarding PFZW’s divestment from Israeli Banks
docP, 15 January 2019 Recently, a message appeared that the Dutch second biggest Pension Fund Zorg & Welzijn (PFZW) had put an end to its
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Banking giant HSBC divests from Israeli arms manufacturer following pressure from human rights campaigners
War on Want, 27 December 2018 HSBC confirmed to campaigners that it has fully divested from Israeli drone manufacturer Elbit Systems, which sells weapons to
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