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CATERPILLAR

CEO: James Owens
Contact the Corporation: Caterpillar Inc.
100 NE Adams St.
Peoria, IL 61629
Phone: 309-675-1000
Fax: 309-675-1182

Human Rights Abuses: contracting with known violators of human rights, 
enabling house demolition, supplying equipment that kills Palestinian 
civilians and American peace activists

For years, the Caterpillar Company has provided Israel with the bulldozers 
used to destroy Palestinian homes. Despite worldwide condemnation, 
Caterpillar has refused to end their corporate participation house 
demolition by cutting off sales of specially modified D9 and D10 bulldozers 
to the Israeli military.

Israel seeks to portray the destruction of homes as necessary to its 
self-defense, but nothing could be further from the truth. As the Israeli 
Committee Against Home Demolitions has rigorously documented, house 
destruction is part of Israel's intention to turn the annexation of East 
Jerusalem and other occupied areas into a concrete fact 
(<http://www.icahd.org/eng>http://www.icahd.org/eng/).

In a letter to Caterpillar CEO James Owens The Office of the UN High 
Commissioner on Human Rights said: "allowing the delivery of your. . . 
bulldozers to the Israeli army. . . in the certain knowledge that they are 
being used for such action, might involve complicity or acceptance on the 
part of your company to actual and potential violations of human rights..."

Peace activist Rachel Corrie was killed by a Caterpillar, D-9, military 
bulldozer in 2003. She was run over while attempting to block the 
destruction a family's home in Gaza. Her family filed suit against 
Caterpillar in March 2005 charging that Caterpillar knowingly sold machines 
used to violate human rights. Since Rachel's death at least three more 
Palestinians have been killed in their homes by Israeli bulldozer demolitions.

Who's working on it:
•<http://www.amnesty.org>Amnesty International
•<http://www.catdestroyshomes.org/index.php>Jewish Voice for Peace
•<http://www.hrw.org>Human Rights Watch
•<http://www.endtheoccupation.org/index.php>US Campaign to End Israeli 
Occupation

da Global Exchange le peggiori multi del 2005 
http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/corporateHRviolators.html

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