Published on Wednesday, October 19, 2005 by OneWorld.net Stiffed by U.S., UN Asks Groups to Report on U.S. Rights Violations by Niko Kyriakou
SAN FRANCISCO - In an unprecedented move, a UN committee has asked human and civil rights groups to submit reports and testify on U.S. breaches of international law, filling a gap left by the U.S. government's failure to submit its own report.
The 18-member United Nations Human Rights Committee, which reviews nations' compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, began reviewing country reports Monday and will complete its session on October 24.
But for the third time since ratifying the treaty in 1992, the United States has failed to submit its five-year report to the committee on U.S. violations of the treaty.
The treaty, which entered into force in 1976 and has been signed by 155 countries, outlaws torture or degrading treatment, protects self-determination, and ensures that all people everywhere are treated within the law.
That's the first part only. See the whole article here:
"The United Nations is, of course, the forum in which the voice of the smaller nations can be raised and heard. This is only possible when the Security Council, with its arbitrary veto, is abolished. It has outlasted its usefulness and must soon give way to a United Nations Assembly free of the abuses of power and veto.
"Then will we see the nations acting without restraints imposed by Great Power veto and financial inducement. Those who call loudest for democracy in foreign lands are strangely blind to its absence in the halls of the United Nations.
"Men must come to realize that the people of all the nations are one and equal, dependent each upon the other. No one nation owns, nor can rule, the world. No one nation can stand alone against the rest. The days of empire and dominion are past. Man is on the threshold of a new understanding of his role on planet Earth. This involves a change in his relationship to his fellow travellers on the path to wisdom and true stewardship of the planet's bounty."
excerpted from: The Brotherhood of Men http://www.share-international.org/master/ma_oct05.htm
Captain Compassion
2005-10-20 02:36:29 EST
On 19 Oct 2005 09:28:03 -0700, "KB" <know_buddee@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Published on Wednesday, October 19, 2005 by OneWorld.net >Stiffed by U.S., UN Asks Groups to Report on U.S. Rights Violations >by Niko Kyriakou > >SAN FRANCISCO - In an unprecedented move, a UN committee has asked >human and civil rights groups to submit reports and testify on U.S. >breaches of international law, filling a gap left by the U.S. >government's failure to submit its own report. > >The 18-member United Nations Human Rights Committee, which reviews >nations' compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and >Political Rights, began reviewing country reports Monday and will >complete its session on October 24. > >But for the third time since ratifying the treaty in 1992, the United >States has failed to submit its five-year report to the committee on >U.S. violations of the treaty. > Seems that the US ignores this treaty regardless who's in power.
>The treaty, which entered into force in 1976 and has been signed by 155 >countries, outlaws torture or degrading treatment, protects >self-determination, and ensures that all people everywhere are treated >within the law. > >That's the first part only. See the whole article here: > >http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1019-06.htm > >================ >================ > >"The United Nations is, of course, the forum in which the voice of the >smaller nations can be raised and heard. This is only possible when the >Security Council, with its arbitrary veto, is abolished. It has >outlasted its usefulness and must soon give way to a United Nations >Assembly free of the abuses of power and veto. > >"Then will we see the nations acting without restraints imposed by >Great Power veto and financial inducement. Those who call loudest for >democracy in foreign lands are strangely blind to its absence in the >halls of the United Nations. > >"Men must come to realize that the people of all the nations are one >and equal, dependent each upon the other. No one nation owns, nor can >rule, the world. No one nation can stand alone against the rest. The >days of empire and dominion are past. Man is on the threshold of a new >understanding of his role on planet Earth. This involves a change in >his relationship to his fellow travellers on the path to wisdom and >true stewardship of the planet's bounty." > >excerpted from: >The Brotherhood of Men >http://www.share-international.org/master/ma_oct05.htm
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RH
2005-10-22 02:13:20 EST
All American tax payers should be required to study the pictures below. They should also be forced to smell the same smells (of rotten human flesh) that the Iraqi people and US soldiers have had to smell. This should be required for as long as they support/tolerate warmongering criminals in the white house.
WARNING - The picures at the following links are NOT appropriate for children and people with heart problems. The activities which were photographed were sought by the horrible people of the Bush regime and funded by the American taxpaying public.
Robert Fisk http://snipurl.com/h6tm
Mind Prod: http://snipurl.com/h6tp
The pictures document some of the crimes that the Bush regime demanded on behalf of their superiors (some men who already have tens of millions and hundreds of millions, and some others who already have thousands of millions can keep sucking at the filthy bloody tits of the genocidal war machine).
One of the best ways to fight terrorism would be to Impeach & lock up Bush and his top cronies: It would show the world that justice is not a game in the USA, and that Americans don't tolerate genocidal warmongering maniacs who use much deception to justify their invasions and occupations.
http://www.ImpeachBush.org
------------ Please join others who are awake on Nov 2nd - Mass resistance to the Bush insanity http://www.WorldCantwait.org
Mark Fox
2005-10-22 02:31:47 EST
RH wrote: > All American tax payers should be required to study the pictures below. > They should also be forced to smell the same smells (of rotten human > flesh) that the Iraqi people and US soldiers have had to smell. This > should be required for as long as they support/tolerate warmongering > criminals in the white house. >
And to think that Saddam could have avoided all this by simply not invading Kuwait.
Saddam then had a second chance to avoid all this by simply obeying the surrender treaty he signed.
Its funny, RH, how your revulsion of "warmongering" only applies to the United States and you completely ignore the "warmongering" waged by the rest of the world. Is it because you hate America? Yes, it is.
I hope they change the constitution so I can vote for President Bush a third time.
Gogarty
2005-10-22 10:44:25 EST
In article <1129962707.130625.30530@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, mark_fox_@yahoo.com says... > > > >RH wrote: >> All American tax payers should be required to study the pictures below. >> They should also be forced to smell the same smells (of rotten human >> flesh) that the Iraqi people and US soldiers have had to smell. This >> should be required for as long as they support/tolerate warmongering >> criminals in the white house. >> > >And to think that Saddam could have avoided all this by simply not >invading Kuwait.
He was given the green light by Bush I. > >Saddam then had a second chance to avoid all this by simply obeying the >surrender treaty he signed. > How did he violate it? The US attack on Iraq was not based on any violations. It was a transparent case of unprovoked aggression by the US.
Wm James
2005-10-27 14:26:03 EST
On 19 Oct 2005 09:28:03 -0700, "KB" <know_buddee@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >SAN FRANCISCO - In an unprecedented move, a UN committee has asked >human and civil rights groups to submit reports and testify on U.S. >breaches of international law, filling a gap left by the U.S. >government's failure to submit its own report. > >The 18-member United Nations Human Rights Committee, which reviews >nations' compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and >Political Rights, began reviewing country reports Monday and will >complete its session on October 24.
ROTFLMAO! Right! As if the opinions of Cuba, China, Ethiopia, France, Sudan, Mexico, and Zimbabwe meant something! Who cares what the UN thinks or wants?
William R. James
B1ackwater
2005-10-27 15:27:50 EST
On 27 Oct 2005 13:26:03 -0500, Wm James <*e@spamreaper.org> wrote:
>On 19 Oct 2005 09:28:03 -0700, "KB" <know_buddee@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >>SAN FRANCISCO - In an unprecedented move, a UN committee has asked >>human and civil rights groups to submit reports and testify on U.S. >>breaches of international law, filling a gap left by the U.S. >>government's failure to submit its own report. >> >>The 18-member United Nations Human Rights Committee, which reviews >>nations' compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and >>Political Rights, began reviewing country reports Monday and will >>complete its session on October 24. > > >ROTFLMAO! Right! As if the opinions of Cuba, China, Ethiopia, >France, Sudan, Mexico, and Zimbabwe meant something! Who cares what >the UN thinks or wants?
It's just the anti-America club nowdays. Massive greed, abuse and corruption worldwide are ignored while even the slightest flaw with America gets exaggerated. Where was the UN when Udey Hussein was raping and torturing the schoolgirls to death ? When Qusay was running his daddys torture chambers ? When Iran funded suicide bombers in Palestine ? Not worth their attention it seems. Hell, it wasn't even very interested in the genocides in Sudan, Congo or Liberia.
Frankly, we ought to just run the organization out of the country. Knock down that building and put up a parking garage. Hosting them just lends credence to their hateful anti-American rants. Let 'em reconvene in the paradises of Cuba, Iran or N.Korea if they so desire. Whatever purposes the UN may have origninally served they are long obsolete and forgotten. Send it to the garbage-heap of history like the League of Nations before it.
There's a REASON the "one world" thing sucks ... and that's because so much of the WORLD is a sucky place to live. Why ruin our good deal ?
D
2005-10-27 16:58:14 EST
"Wm James" <wrjames.remove@spamreaper.org> wrote in message news:gl62m1hjcm2p61jnki4palm3dsp1l8asut@4ax.com... > On 19 Oct 2005 09:28:03 -0700, "KB" <know_buddee@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >>SAN FRANCISCO - In an unprecedented move, a UN committee has asked >>human and civil rights groups to submit reports and testify on U.S. >>breaches of international law, filling a gap left by the U.S. >>government's failure to submit its own report. >> >>The 18-member United Nations Human Rights Committee, which reviews >>nations' compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and >>Political Rights, began reviewing country reports Monday and will >>complete its session on October 24. > > > ROTFLMAO! Right! As if the opinions of Cuba, China, Ethiopia, > France, Sudan, Mexico, and Zimbabwe meant something! Who cares what > the UN thinks or wants?
Because the US imports more than it imports, and can't supply itself with oil? The US needs the rest of the world more than the rest of the world needs the US. Hate to break it to you over usenet. ;)
> William R. James >
B1ackwater
2005-10-27 17:07:16 EST
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 20:58:14 GMT, "d" <d@example.com> wrote:
>"Wm James" <wrjames.remove@spamreaper.org> wrote in message >news:gl62m1hjcm2p61jnki4palm3dsp1l8asut@4ax.com... >> On 19 Oct 2005 09:28:03 -0700, "KB" <know_buddee@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>>SAN FRANCISCO - In an unprecedented move, a UN committee has asked >>>human and civil rights groups to submit reports and testify on U.S. >>>breaches of international law, filling a gap left by the U.S. >>>government's failure to submit its own report. >>> >>>The 18-member United Nations Human Rights Committee, which reviews >>>nations' compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and >>>Political Rights, began reviewing country reports Monday and will >>>complete its session on October 24. >> >> >> ROTFLMAO! Right! As if the opinions of Cuba, China, Ethiopia, >> France, Sudan, Mexico, and Zimbabwe meant something! Who cares what >> the UN thinks or wants? > >Because the US imports more than it imports, and can't supply itself with >oil? The US needs the rest of the world more than the rest of the world >needs the US. Hate to break it to you over usenet. ;)
Hate to break it to you over usenet, but "the rest of the world" badly needs lots of things the USA produces too. Trying to cut our throat means cutting their own throats.
Chris.holt
2005-10-27 17:20:07 EST
B1ackwater wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 20:58:14 GMT, "d" <d@example.com> wrote:
>>Because the US imports more than it imports, and can't supply itself with >>oil? The US needs the rest of the world more than the rest of the world >>needs the US. Hate to break it to you over usenet. ;)
> Hate to break it to you over usenet, but "the rest of the > world" badly needs lots of things the USA produces too. > Trying to cut our throat means cutting their own throats.
It works both ways. What was that place with the koolaid? Jonestown?