UN Palestinian Rights Committee 147d ago

On 12 November 2025, during the UN Palestinian Rights Committee's Civil Society Consultations in Chile, Mr. Germán Romano, BDS Latin America Coordinator, introduced the movement of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions in Latin America and the Caribbean as the largest civil society movement embarking on concrete and peaceful actions to end Israel’s apartheid and the complicity of Member States and corporations when it comes to Israeli crimes committed against the Palestinian people. In the context of this region, he argued that the fight to break the corporate and institutional bonds with the Israeli apartheid should be the fight of the region for its own democracy, sovereignty and justice, as there has not been a single dictatorship in the past 50 years that did not receive support from Israel in the form of military training and surveillance and other forms of repression against the Latin American people. “There is vulnerability for our own people when we maintain trade ties with genocide Israel”, he added. More details: https://www.un.org/unispal/engagement-with-latin-american-civil-society-palestinian-diaspora/