42 NGOs from the East Asian, South East Asian, and South Asian regions have co-signed a statement urging the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Secretary General to make public the names of companies that are profiting from Israeli settlements. The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution in 2016 requesting the High Commissioner to create a database of such companies, and the Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) published a preliminary report in late January 2018. However, none of the companies were named, and it has been widely reported that some states have been exerting strong pressure on the UN to stop this work.