All six United Nations agencies in Jordan have now canceled their contracts with G4S, a private security corporation with a lengthy history of involvement in Israel’s crimes...

The BDS National Committee – a Palestinian organization coordinating boycott activities – has welcomed the decisions by the UNDP and the unnamed company “to meet their ethical and legal obligations by dumping G4S, which is complicit in Israel’s grave violations of Palestinian rights and international law through its partnership with Israel’s police.”

G4S, the world’s largest private security firm, has operated in Israeli prisons where Palestinians are held without charge or trial and provided equipment and services to Israeli military checkpoints and settlements...

Palestinians launched the #UNDropG4S campaign in 2015 to urge the United Nations to end more than $20 million dollars in its agencies’ contracts with the company...

The Jordan offices of the World Food Programme, the refugee agency UNHCR, the children’s fund UNICEF and operations agency UNOPS have also ditched G4S in recent years.