Denmark’s pension fund excludes Israeli state assets, companies from investment portfolio
A Danish pension fund has become the latest to divest from Israeli state assets and companies over human rights concerns, according to the Reuters news agency.
AkademikerPension, which manages a fund worth 157 billion Danish crowns ($24.77bn) on behalf of Danish teachers and professors, said the decision was based on Israel’s war in Gaza and the expansion of its settlements in the occupied West Bank.
“This comes as an assessment of the state of Israel’s ability to uphold human rights,” CEO Jens Munch Holst told Reuters.
The pension fund’s move follows similar action from Norway’s $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund.
Suffering of Palestinian children ‘result of choices’, ‘choices can change’: Top Belgian diplomat
Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot says the suffering of Palestinian children in Gaza and the occupied West Bank is “not inevitable”, “it is a result of choices, of actions and of inaction, and choices can change”.
Speaking at a high-level event on the Call to Action for Palestinian Children in the West Bank and Gaza, he underlined that Belgium is once again calling on the international community to protect children, respect international humanitarian law and guarantee safe and unimpeded humanitarian access.
“Children should never be collateral damage. Yet today in Gaza and the West Bank, they are paying the highest price,” Prevot said.
“I disagree with those who say that the humanitarian system is broken. It is access that is missing. It is the deliberate decision to deny access,” he added.
He concluded by urging immediate action, saying, “If these children can still find the courage to speak, what excuse do we have not to act?”
It's the UN that is broken thanks to the USA, protecting and arming Israel, creating and staffing the controversial GHF to let Israel continue blocking all legitimate humanitarian aid.
