The Civil and Human Rights Community Formal Petition To: High Commissionaire for Human Rights, United Nation, Geneva Switzerland
The Petition
I have spent more than half my life engaged in criminal justice work. It took almost all of that time to exhaust systems of remedies that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights embrace. Now we are standing on the verge of International Intervention at the United Nation High Commissionaire for Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland. And we shall keep engaging in the Civil Rights Community special status with the United Nation as an effective remedy until Justice prevails.“Justice denied anywhere diminishes
justice everywhere.” - Martin Luther King Jr. -
The right to bring a clam for compensation for human rights injuries is itself a fundamental human right under international law. This right includes the ability to recover monetary compensation; to insist on a proper and full investigation of the incident, and see the perpetrators of the abuses brought to criminal justice. The obligation to meet these responsibilities extends to a successor government to the same degree that applied to the former government that undertook or tolerated the human rights abuses.
ReplyDeleteThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights says that "Everyone has the rights to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law. Similarly, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which has been ratified by more than 140 countries, including the United States, says that "Each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes: (a) To ensure that any person whose rights or freedom as herein recognized are violated shall have an effective remedy, notwithstanding that the violation has been committed by persons acting in an official capacity..."