The Jewish settlement of Efrat on the southern outskirts of Bethlehem in the West Bank (AFP) Human Rights Watch / February 21, 2022 Brussels Trade with Settlements in Occupied Territories Contributes to Rights Abuses. The European Commission should prohibit EU trade with settlements in occupied territories globally, Human Rights Watch said today as it signed onto a European Citizen’s Initiative (ECI). The citizen-led initiative , registered with the European Commission in September 2021 and initiated on February 20, 2022, calls for adopting legislation to prohibit products originating from unlawful settlements from entering the EU market and to ban EU exports...