Jason Amnesty speaks to governments to apply human rights, including removing executon because it is a standard of human rights today.No, Israel and America are not the best defenders of human rights. You can speak about Switzerland and such countries of defending human rights, but never Israel or America who face reports from human rights activists for violating human rights.
Switzerland has violated human rights in the past but if I get into that it will probably be too off-topic. No country has a perfect human rights record.
"My feet they finally took root in the Earth, but I got me a nice little place in the stars, and I swear I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car..."
Being largely inoffensive is not the same as being an active defender.
'How shall a man judge what to do in such times?' 'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves, and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.'
Jason Amnesty speaks to governments to apply human rights, including removing executon because it is a standard of human rights today.No, Israel and America are not the best defenders of human rights. You can speak about Switzerland and such countries of defending human rights, but never Israel or America who face reports from human rights activists for violating human rights.
I belong to Amnesty International - they're not perfect but they do good work. I guess I'm a pinko liberal bleeding heart.
So is their official line that the U.S. and Israel are two of the worst offenders in the world today?
'How shall a man judge what to do in such times?' 'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves, and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.'
You may find it interesting Jason, that Amnesty International is worried about the fate of the 15000 detainees the U.S. have in Iraq, when they are transferred to the Iraq authorities:
US forces are currently holding about 15,500 detainees in Iraq in three major detention facilities, the largest of these being Camp Bucca, in southern Iraq, near the Kuwaiti border. Most are held without charge or trial, with some having been held for more than five years. The detainees include former Ba’ath Party, security and military officials who could be at particular risk.They include ‘Ali Hassan al-Majeed, Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Ta’i, Hussain Rashid al-Tikriti and ‘Abdul Ghani ‘Abdul Ghafour, all sentenced to death for crimes including genocide and crimes against humanity. They are likely to be executed if handed over to the Iraqi authorities.
Take ActionThe Iraqi authorities are already holding thousands of people, many without charge or trial and often in appalling conditions and with no access to lawyers. Death sentences have been passed after trials which failed to meet international fair trial standards. Political and security suspects are routinely tortured or ill-treated in prisons and detention facilities controlled by the Iraqi authorities.
So is their official line that the U.S. and Israel are two of the worst offenders in the world today?
Where do you see that?
I see that in the reports written against Israe land America who have wide violations for human rights. Israel even bombed human rights activists when they went to cj\heck for Jenin massacre. Amnesty was behind locking Guantanamo because they kept on raising the issue in the media.. Anyways, it doesn't take much to know that the everyday killing of the Palestinians makes Israel a big human right violator
So is their official line that the U.S. and Israel are two of the worst offenders in the world today?
Where do you see that?
That's what lionking is saying their position is.
'How shall a man judge what to do in such times?' 'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves, and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.'
1) Israel Systematically Violates the Human Rights of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories Every day, Israeli security forces in the West Bank and Gaza violate articles of the 4'h Geneva Convention on Human Rights, an agreement that governs wartime rules of engagement and to which Israel is a member. Palestinian homes and agriculture fields are routinely demolished to make way for illegal Israeli settlements. Israeli soldiers also regularly arrest and detain-often for years-Palestinians without due process. According to Amnesty International, Israel is the only country in the world that legalizes torture. 2) US Aid Violates US Law Laws passed by Congress prohibit the president from furnishing military aid or selling weapons to any country that consistently violates internationally recognized human rights standards or uses those weapons in an offensive-rather than a defensive-manner. The US State Department says that Israel engages in "torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment of punishment, prolonged detention without charges and trial, causing the disappearance of persons by the abduction and clandestine detention of those persons, and other flagrant denials of the right to life, liberty, or the security of people." Weapons purchased from the US by Israel are regularly used against unarmed Palestinian civilian populations.
Ironically, Hamas did legalize torture just before the fighting started.
'How shall a man judge what to do in such times?' 'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves, and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.'
The US doesn't legalize torture. We just do it anyway. I suspect we are not alone in that.
Or define it away.
Or use extraordinary rendition and let someone else do the actual torture.
"My feet they finally took root in the Earth, but I got me a nice little place in the stars, and I swear I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car..."