LGPS Divest

Local Government Pension Scheme funds collectively invest billions in companies complicit in Israel’s grave violations of Palestinian human rights.

Led by scheme members and their representative trade unions, LGPS Divest is campaigning to ensure administering authorities implement adequate investment screening and due diligence procedures to guarantee that scheme members’ money is not used to support Israel’s violations of international law.

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LGPS Divest

Local Government Pension Scheme Funds invest billions in companies complicit in Israel’s grave violations of Palestinian human rights.

Led by scheme members and their representative trade unions LGPS Divest is campaigning to ensure administering authorities implement adequate investment screening and due diligence procedures  to guarantee that pension holders money is not used to support Israel’s violations of international law.

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Oppose the anti-boycott bill

The bill would severely restrict the ability of scheme members of public sector pension schemes, like the LGPS, to ensure their deferred wages are invested in line with their values.

Template LGPS Letter
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 Scheme member: lobby your pension committee chair

Use the template letter to write to the chair of your pension fund committee to ask them to address their fund’s investments in companies complicit in human rights abuses.

Template LGPS Letter
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News

We must oppose the government’s anti-boycott bill

We must oppose the government’s anti-boycott bill

Aug 3, 2023

We must oppose the government's anti-boycott billIn July 2023, the UK government tabled the 'Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) bill’ (or anti-boycott bill), which threatens to erode local democracy, restrict freedom of expression, and undermine...

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