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Stolen Beauty Campaign Timeline


July 2005

Palestinian call for international boycott divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel

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Sept. 2007

Sex & the City Star and Oxfam Ambassador Kristin Davis signs on as Ahava spokeswoman

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Dec. 2009

Israel launches massive assault on the blockaded Gaza Strip

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Jan. 2009 Blockade of Ahava store in Covent Garden, London, followed by regular protest actions at the location

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June 2009 First CODEPINK AHAVA protest at the Hilton Hotel in Tel Aviv

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CODEPINK NYC delivers letter to Ahava Spokeswoman and Oxfam Ambassador at Lord & Taylor

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CODEPINK NYC Ahava action at Tel Aviv Beach Party in Central Park

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July 2009 Official launch of CODEPINK's "Stolen Beauty" boycott campaign

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CODEPINK protest at Ahava booth at beauty convention in Las Vegas

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French activists protest Ahava at Sephora store on the Champs-Elysees, Paris

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CODEPINK protest action against Ahava in D.C.

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CODEPINK protest action against Ahava in Santa Monica

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Oxfam begins to send out statement that Kristin Davis has been suspended from publicity work for the duration of her Ahava contract

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August 2009

Article on Page 6 of the New York Post about Kristin Davis, Oxfam and Ahava

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Store locator disappears from the Ahava U.S. web site

CODEPINK NYC stages protest at an independent pharmacy and a Ricky's store

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CODEPINK LA protest at store results in promise from owner not to re-stock Ahava products

September 2009

Article on Gawker about Ahava and Kristin Davis not renewing their endorsement contract

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CODEPINK Chicago protest at Nordstrom's Department store

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The Stolen Beauty campaign is endorsed by a unanimous vote at the U.S. Campaign Against the Israeli Occupation conference in Chicago

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CODEPINK Women for Peace signs the Boycott, Sanctions & Divestment Movement's international call

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Women in Black/Vienna stage protest at U.N. commissary that stocks Ahava products

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Second Ahava Blockade: Two activists lock themselves inside Ahava shop in London's Covent Garden

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The Big Campaign stages protest at Ahava store in London; protests on the same day in Amsterdam, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles

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October 2009

CODEPINK joins the First Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions marathon in support of jailed Palestinian human rights activist Mohammed Othman with a Stolen Beauty Action in D.C.

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Tadamon in Canada joins the Stolen Beauty campaign with
store protest in Montreal

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CODEPINK activists continue delivering boycott letters to store managers around the country

November 2009

Dutch Foreign Ministry agrees to investigate AHAVA's manufacturing and labeling practices

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December 2009

Palestinian Authority launches boycott campaign against Israeli settlement companies by confiscating and destroying products including AHAVA Cosmetics.

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Third blockade of the Covent Garden Ahava shop in London.

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January 2010

Business and Human Rights Centre (London) disseminates "The Case Against AHAVA"

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Facebook campaign succeeds in securing confirmation from Costco that they will no longer carry AHAVA products

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British MP denounces Ahava's fraudulent labeling practices during debate in Parliament on Israeli "settlement products"

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February 2010

EU court in Brussels rules that products from Israel's settlements in the West Bank are not Israeli and therefore are not covered by trade agreements between EU & Israel

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March 2010

March 30 International BDS Day of Action: AHAVA protests in NYC, D.C., Chicago, Montreal, Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco

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Campaigners start holding Saturday demonstrations every two weeks outside the UK's only Ahava shop in Covent Garden

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May 2010 The Palestinian Authority upgrades its boycott campaign against Israeli settlement products by sending volunteers throughout the West Bank to distribute a pamphlet describing targeted companies, including AHAVA

French-based Coordination des Appels pour une Paix Juste au Proche Orient (CAPJPO) files suit against Sephora for carrying AHAVA products

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July 2010

First AHAVA protest in Brooklyn at Ricky's NYC on Montague Street organized by Brooklyn for Peace, in collaboration with CODEPINK NYC & Adalah-NY; several Brooklyn synagogues and Jewish community groups organize a "buycott" in response.

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Launch of Czech Ahava boycott in by ISM-Czech Republic

CODEPINK AHAVA boycott activists go to Cosmoprof Convention in Las Vegas for the second year in a row to confront AHAVA staff at their booth.

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August 2010

Trial of four London activists, all charged with aggravated trespass, who shut down the Ahava shop in Covent Garden. All four are acquitted.

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