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Speeches at the 60th UN Human Rights Commission, March 15 - April 23, 2004
Speeches
Economic, social and cultural rights. Kok Ksor - Vietnam has ratified the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights in 1982. Despite this, it has not implemented any of the provisions contained in the Pact. For the last 28 years, the Government of Vietnam has forced the Degar off their ancestral lands, condemned them to a life of poverty, and has provoked a wave of persecutions, which includes summary executions, imprisonments, disappearances, coercive sterilizations, electric shock, torture, rape and religious persecution.
The right to development. Enver Can - Despite having signed the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights at the end of the 1990s, China doesn't respect it. Uighurs's right to development is simply non existing. Strict restrictions are imposed on their religious life; coercive birth-control policy; massive Han Chinese immigration into East Turkestan is threatening the Uighur people to became a minority; systematic policy of assimilation is being implemented especially in spheres of culture, education, language and history.
Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and All Forms of Discrimination. Vanida S. Thephsouvanh - Laotian authorities have not ceased persecuting the minority Hmong. In December 2003, approximately 3000 people died of hunger or from bombardments and another 1000 were recently arrested. We ask the Commission to call the attention of the UN to the worrying state of human rights in Laos and urge it to adopt all appropriate measures, including sending a delegation to Laos and securing humanitarian assistance for the her people.
Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and all forms of discrimination. Penelope Faulkner - After obtaining refugee status from the UNHCR in Cambodia, UBCV member Pham Van Tuong (Thich Tri Luc) was arrested by Vietnamese Security Police and condemned him to 20 months in prison at an unfair trial in March this year. This case violates all UN standards and also disregards the CERD's recommendations that Vietnam must "protect the rights of all refugees, including the rights of Vietnamese repatriated from Cambodia". We urge the Commission to press Vietnam to cease its policy of religious discrimination.
Civil and political rights - Umar Khanbiev. Since the beginning of the war, according to independent NGOs, 25% of the Chechen population has perished, 30% becoming refugees. The people who remain in Chechnya have become hostages and are subjected daily to air bombing, artillery bombardment, "clean-up" operations and executions. Russia is not engaged in an "anti-terrorist campaign" but in a colonial war. The Transnational Radical Party urges to give the highest priority in considering Aslan Maskhadov's Peace Plan for a political solution that could put an end to this genocide war.
Briefings
14/04/2004 - Against a United Nations worlwide ban on human embryos stem cell research for therapeutic purposes
14/04/2004 - Moratorium on executions
29/03/2004 - Debate organized by the TRP and the American Ngo Freedom House
Economic, social and cultural rights. Kok Ksor - Vietnam has ratified the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights in 1982. Despite this, it has not implemented any of the provisions contained in the Pact. For the last 28 years, the Government of Vietnam has forced the Degar off their ancestral lands, condemned them to a life of poverty, and has provoked a wave of persecutions, which includes summary executions, imprisonments, disappearances, coercive sterilizations, electric shock, torture, rape and religious persecution.
The right to development. Enver Can - Despite having signed the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights at the end of the 1990s, China doesn't respect it. Uighurs's right to development is simply non existing. Strict restrictions are imposed on their religious life; coercive birth-control policy; massive Han Chinese immigration into East Turkestan is threatening the Uighur people to became a minority; systematic policy of assimilation is being implemented especially in spheres of culture, education, language and history.
Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and All Forms of Discrimination. Vanida S. Thephsouvanh - Laotian authorities have not ceased persecuting the minority Hmong. In December 2003, approximately 3000 people died of hunger or from bombardments and another 1000 were recently arrested. We ask the Commission to call the attention of the UN to the worrying state of human rights in Laos and urge it to adopt all appropriate measures, including sending a delegation to Laos and securing humanitarian assistance for the her people.
Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and all forms of discrimination. Penelope Faulkner - After obtaining refugee status from the UNHCR in Cambodia, UBCV member Pham Van Tuong (Thich Tri Luc) was arrested by Vietnamese Security Police and condemned him to 20 months in prison at an unfair trial in March this year. This case violates all UN standards and also disregards the CERD's recommendations that Vietnam must "protect the rights of all refugees, including the rights of Vietnamese repatriated from Cambodia". We urge the Commission to press Vietnam to cease its policy of religious discrimination.
Civil and political rights - Umar Khanbiev. Since the beginning of the war, according to independent NGOs, 25% of the Chechen population has perished, 30% becoming refugees. The people who remain in Chechnya have become hostages and are subjected daily to air bombing, artillery bombardment, "clean-up" operations and executions. Russia is not engaged in an "anti-terrorist campaign" but in a colonial war. The Transnational Radical Party urges to give the highest priority in considering Aslan Maskhadov's Peace Plan for a political solution that could put an end to this genocide war.
Briefings
14/04/2004 - Against a United Nations worlwide ban on human embryos stem cell research for therapeutic purposes
14/04/2004 - Moratorium on executions
29/03/2004 - Debate organized by the TRP and the American Ngo Freedom House
