Editing General Mills (section)

===Involvement in Israeli settlements===
{{See also|List of companies operating in West Bank settlements}}

On February 12, 2020, the [[United Nations]] published a [[List of companies operating in West Bank settlements|database]] of companies doing business related in the [[West Bank]], including [[East Jerusalem]], as well as in the occupied [[Golan Heights]].<ref>{{cite web |date=12 Feb 2020 |title=Database of all business enterprises involved in certain activities relating to Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank (A/HRC/43/71) |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/database-all-business-enterprises-involved-certain-activities |access-date=2021-09-12 |publisher=UN OCHA}}</ref> General Mills was listed on the database on account of the activities of its subsidiary General Mills Israel in [[Israeli settlement]]s in these occupied territories,<ref name="unlist_ohchr">{{cite news |date=12 February 2020 |title=UN rights office issues report on business activities related to settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory |url=https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25542 |access-date=5 July 2021 |work=[[Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights]]}}</ref> which some have argued is [[International law and Israeli settlements|illegal under international law]].<ref name="unsc2334">{{cite news |date=23 December 2016 |title=S/RES/2334(2016) |url=https://undocs.org/S/RES/2334(2016) |access-date=5 July 2021 |work=[[United Nations Security Council]]}}</ref>

As of the update on June 30, 2023, General Mills is no longer involved in [[Israeli settlement]]s and has been removed from the [[United Nations]] [[List of companies operating in West Bank settlements|database]].<ref name="hrc3136">{{cite news |date=30 June 2023 |title=Update HRC3136 |url=https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session31/database-hrc3136/23-06-30-Update-israeli-settlement-opt-database-hrc3136.pdf |access-date=30 April 2025 |work=[[Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights]]}}</ref>