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

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