The Basque company CAF is seriously violating international law and Palestinian human rights by participating in the construction of the new Green Line of the Jerusalem Light Rail (JLR) along with the Israeli company Shapir. The JLR connects Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory with Jerusalem.
Eight trade unions in Norway are calling for a boycott of CAF and asking the Norwegian government to exclude it from public contracts. More than 15 human rights organizations in the Spanish state are demanding the exclusion of CAF and companies included in the UN database of companies operating in Israeli illegal settlements. Groups in Britain are also calling for CAF to be excluded from public tenders.
On November 25 in Mexico, more than 80 human rights organizations, unions, and more than twenty personalities from the cultural, academic and political world, including The Human Rights Association of the State of Mexico (ADMHEM), the Mexican Trade Union Electricistas (SME) and Centro de investigación Laboral y Asesoría Sindical (CILAS), sent a letter demanding that the Mexico City subway isn’t remodeled by the Basque company CAF.
The letter asks Dra. Claudia Sheinbaum, head of the Mexico City government and Dra. Florencia Serranía, director of the Mexico City metro, not to award CAF with the contract to remodel line 1 of the CDMX metro until it ends its role in the Jerusalem Light Train.
Two days later, we learned that CAF had withdrawn from the tender for line 1 of the Mexico City Metro, alleging that the economic amount offered did not allow it to guarantee the technical requirements.