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Anti-Slavery Group Condemns Silence on UN Upgrade of Sudan
Former Slave: “UN Silence on Jihad-Slavery in Sudan Outrageous”
Wednesday, April 30, 2003 (Boston) — The American Anti-Slavery Group applauds
the White House for denouncing Cuba’s re-election to the United Nation Human
Rights Commission, (UNHRC) but is deeply troubled over the silence in
Washington over the commission’s vote to upgrade Sudan, a nation that enslaves
Blacks.
Dr. Charles Jacobs, president of the American Anti-Slavery Group, says: “It is
outrageous that UNHCR embraced Cuba a week after Havana denied it access to
investigate the Castro regime’s arrest of dissidents, but it is more shocking
still that the world was silent when the UNHRC upgraded Sudan, a slaving
nation.”
Two weeks ago, the Rights Commission voted to upgrade Sudan from a “country
with special problems,” to a status where special human rights monitoring is no
longer required. “Because of that vote, the UN will no longer monitor the slave
trade,” Jacobs said. “The world body has closed its eyes to human bondage.”
Sudan has been condemned for genocide and for the enslavement of blacks by the
US Congressional Black Caucus, by the entire Congress, and by President Bush.
The American Anti-Slavery Group opposes the UN upgrade of Sudan, which has done
nothing in the past year to warrant improvement of its status. UN Special
Rapporteur Baum noted in a March 28, 2003 report that “human rights abuses have
not decreased” and “the overall human rights situation has not improved
significantly.”
Francis Bok, an escaped slave from Sudan, says: “I was captured in a slave raid
and held as a slave for 10 years. I am shocked that the UN would say there is
no slavery in Sudan.”
“We understand that the Bush Administration is focused on Iraq, but the
Administration needs to speak up forcefully now against the UN’s whitewashing
of a slaving regime,” says Jacobs. “America is a nation that tore itself apart
over the issue of black slavery. Surely we cannot maintain silence in the face
of an immoral farce where slavers are rewarded by the UN.”
Khartoum has been conducting a self-declared “jihad” against the country’s
southern African Christian and animist population which has resulted in the
death of two million people, the enslavement of tens of thousands, and the
displacement of nearly 5 million people.
Libya, the chair of the UN Human Rights Commission, has been linked in the
trafficking of Sudanese slaves into its borders. “It is no wonder Cuba is
embraced: The human rights commission is now headed by slavers and oppressors,”
observed Jacobs.
Founded in 1994, the American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG) is America’s leading
human rights organization combating modern-day slavery worldwide. Based in
Boston, the historic center of the American abolitionist movement, AASG works
to extend the wave of emancipation to the 27 million people trapped in slavery
today.
Charles Jacobs and Francis Bok are available for interviews.
Freedom Now News
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Contact: Joyce Koo, 617-426-8161
Anti-Slavery Group Condemns Silence on UN Upgrade of Sudan
Former Slave: “UN Silence on Jihad-Slavery in Sudan Outrageous”
Wednesday, April 30, 2003 (Boston) — The American Anti-Slavery Group applauds
the White House for denouncing Cuba’s re-election to the United Nation Human
Rights Commission, (UNHRC) but is deeply troubled over the silence in
Washington over the commission’s vote to upgrade Sudan, a nation that enslaves
Blacks.
Dr. Charles Jacobs, president of the American Anti-Slavery Group, says: “It is
outrageous that UNHCR embraced Cuba a week after Havana denied it access to
investigate the Castro regime’s arrest of dissidents, but it is more shocking
still that the world was silent when the UNHRC upgraded Sudan, a slaving
nation.”
Two weeks ago, the Rights Commission voted to upgrade Sudan from a “country
with special problems,” to a status where special human rights monitoring is no
longer required. “Because of that vote, the UN will no longer monitor the slave
trade,” Jacobs said. “The world body has closed its eyes to human bondage.”
Sudan has been condemned for genocide and for the enslavement of blacks by the
US Congressional Black Caucus, by the entire Congress, and by President Bush.
The American Anti-Slavery Group opposes the UN upgrade of Sudan, which has done
nothing in the past year to warrant improvement of its status. UN Special
Rapporteur Baum noted in a March 28, 2003 report that “human rights abuses have
not decreased” and “the overall human rights situation has not improved
significantly.”
Francis Bok, an escaped slave from Sudan, says: “I was captured in a slave raid
and held as a slave for 10 years. I am shocked that the UN would say there is
no slavery in Sudan.”
“We understand that the Bush Administration is focused on Iraq, but the
Administration needs to speak up forcefully now against the UN’s whitewashing
of a slaving regime,” says Jacobs. “America is a nation that tore itself apart
over the issue of black slavery. Surely we cannot maintain silence in the face
of an immoral farce where slavers are rewarded by the UN.”
Khartoum has been conducting a self-declared “jihad” against the country’s
southern African Christian and animist population which has resulted in the
death of two million people, the enslavement of tens of thousands, and the
displacement of nearly 5 million people.
Libya, the chair of the UN Human Rights Commission, has been linked in the
trafficking of Sudanese slaves into its borders. “It is no wonder Cuba is
embraced: The human rights commission is now headed by slavers and oppressors,”
observed Jacobs.
Founded in 1994, the American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG) is America’s leading
human rights organization combating modern-day slavery worldwide. Based in
Boston, the historic center of the American abolitionist movement, AASG works
to extend the wave of emancipation to the 27 million people trapped in slavery
today.
Charles Jacobs and Francis Bok are available for interviews.
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I wonder oh UN did you sale your "soul" to islam? Because it seems you have forgotten a few things, And that is, We Apostates ,Disbelievers and well non muslims in general we are human too and according to your own bill of rights, thats
supposed to give us rights too, but it seems when islam steps in our rights step out and thats not ok with me!
So I would like to petition you to get back to the basics of HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL!!
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml
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Article 1.
•All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
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Article 2.
•Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
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Article 3.
•Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
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Article 4.
•No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
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Article 5.
•No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
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Article 6.
•Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
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Article 7.
•All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.
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Article 8.
•Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.
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Article 9.
•No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
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Article 10.
•Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
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Article 11.
•(1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
•(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.
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Article 12.
•No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
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Article 13.
•(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
•(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
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Article 14.
•(1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
•(2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
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Article 15.
•(1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.
•(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.
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Article 16.
•(1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
•(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
•(3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
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Article 17.
•(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
•(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
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Article 18.
•Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
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Article 19.
•Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless ect http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml
Forget it women, the UN is strongly influenced by 57 Islamic states, and their merciful Allah demands continuous human rights abuses against women and minorities. What we need is something that John McCain had proposed–"League of Democracies" Islamic states would naturally be excluded and the march of progress can be left unhindered.
Sadly, we have a President in office who loves to kiss Islamic butts.