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International
A Call to Address the UN’s
Double Standards in Human Rights
The International Human Rights Association of American Minorities (IHRAAM), the United
States Human Rights Network (USHRN) and the Indigenous Peoples and Nations Coalition
(IPNC) convened a Panel at the Geneva Press Club on 22 June 2021 entitled Consultation on
Double Standards in Human Rights – Towards Cooperation and Improving International Relations
to call attention to the persistent application of double standards at the Human Rights Council
when addressing human rights violations of the countries of the North and the South, or between
the developed and undeveloped countries. You can review the meeting at this website:
https://pressclub.ch/consultation-on-double-standards-in-human-rights/?lang=en
The 7 main speakers and two additional speakers highlighted the panel’s concerns that human
rights issues raised by the states of the North are addressed in the context of a conventional
acceptance that North States themselves commit few or no human rights violations. They
expressed the concern that North State violations rarely are addressed by the Human Rights
Council’s Item 4 (country specific situations) and item 10 (technical services) that require the
Council’s attention. This disparity between the focus on human rights issues of concern to
the North and those concerning States in the South represents an ongoing exercise in double
standards and is continually reflected in the Council’s refusal to address concerns such as those
raised by the following 7 main speakers, highlighted here.
H. E. Ambassador 1469 of 12 December 1959 which legitimized
Ronald F. Barnes, the apartheid regime implemented by the
Moderator United States of America.
International Status of
Alaska
Ambassador Ronald F.
Barnes addressed the
international legal and
political status of Alaska
with reference to Article
73 of the Charter of the
United Nations, pointing
out that the United Nations upheld apartheid
in Alaska by refusing to examine the United
States of America Supreme Court decision
determining that the land in Alaska is for the
settlement of the white race (Tee-Hit-Ton v.
United States of America, 1955) and that “the Alfred de Zayas
superior genius of Europe might claim an Former Independent Expert on the
ascendency” (Johnson v McIntosh, (21 U.S. Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable
(8 Wheat.) 543, 1823). He cited independent International Order
Expert Alfred de Zayas’ condemnation Alfred de Zayas stated that while the United
of the resultant apartheid regime that has Nations created the Universal Declaration
disempowered the Indigenous Peoples in of Human Rights and several international
Alaska [and Hawaii], who called in his Memo instruments to address human rights violations,
for annulling General Assembly resolution a double standard as to which situations are
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addressed remains due to the geopolitical “Human Dignity is the Source
influence exercised by Northern States, noting
in particular that “The Commission on Human of All Human Rights”
Rights failed miserably in 2003 and 2004 when
it refused to appoint a commission of inquiry
for Guantanamo”. States’ voting records follow
clear lines of political demarcation that block
progress in addressing violations of which they Indigenous children from our homes and
themselves are the perpetrators. Distorted or communities to torture, brutalize, and
false histories and denial continue to deprive dehumanize us, then concealed and destroyed
Indigenous Peoples of their rights and dignity documents, records and files of their misdeeds
among nations as well as reparations for the that have never been disclosed. As a survivor
genocides committed against them. Instead, I want the United Nations human rights and
human rights have become a tool used by humanitarian mechanisms to fully address
powerful states to pressure and weaken their these crimes against humanity and genocide;
adversaries, fomenting political strife and to restore our rightful status among the
encouraging uprisings against their leaders nations and peoples; to provide reparations
in an effort to impose regime change by all and damages and to restore our homeland
the tools of their foreign policy. The Human by repealing the apartheid law and policy by
Rights Council will lose all credibility if it revoking and repealing the effect of the 1492
fails to address this kind of blatant double Papal Bulls. “
standards in human rights.
John Shipton
Father of Julian Assange’
Panelist John Shipton, father
of Julian Assange, journalist
and publisher, addressed how
Assange has been held in
Belmarsh maximum security
prison under arbitrary detention
in violation of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, Conventions on Asylum and
of human rights standards in the Council of
Europe. Julian Assange has spent over a decade
in detention for exposing war crimes without
Alice Aby Ekanaawaaki any UN human rights body addressing the
Residential School Eye-Witness Survivor violation of his rights. Due process was
Testimony trashed, and the malfeasance and misfeasance
Panelist Alice Aby – Ekanaawaaki is a 7-year committed by both the United Kingdom
residential school survivor of St. Joseph’s Crown Prosecuting Service and the Swedish
Mission “Residential School” established Prosecuting Authority has been documented.
in 1867, and eyewitness to its practices. The An exacting review by Nils Melser, Professor
Canadian institutions/prisons were created of Law at Glasgow University and United
by statutory law and policy and enforced by Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture,
the government by its North-West Mounted revealed how Julian has been a victim of
Police created in 1873 (now called the Royal deliberate psychological torture over years,
Canadian Mounted Police) and operated and characterized it as “slow motion murder
by the Christian churches that facilitated a before our very eyes.” Our noble task is to
governmental assimilation strategy against free Julian Assange - and thereby restore the
Indigenous Peoples that is tantamount to prestige and deliberations of what could be a
crimes against humanity and genocide. She truly magnificent civil structure, the United
noted: “the colonizing state forcibly removed Nations.
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