Leaked memo schooled Tillerson on human rights - POLITICO
►https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/19/tillerson-state-human-rights-304118
The May 17 memo reads like a crash course for a businessman-turned-diplomat, and its conclusion offers a starkly realist vision: that the U.S. should use human rights as a club against its adversaries, like Iran, China and North Korea, while giving a pass to repressive allies like the Philippines, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
HCDH | UN expert on extreme poverty and human rights to visit USA, one of the wealthiest countries in the world
▻http://www.ohchr.org/FR/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22465&LangID=E
Les #États-Unis exigent des autres pays (ou plutôt des pays qui ne leur sont pas inféodés) le respect de droits humains qu’eux-mêmes refusent formellement de respecter.
“Some might ask why a UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights would visit a country as rich as the United States. But despite great wealth in the US, there also exists great poverty and inequality,” said Mr. Alston.
“I would like to focus on how poverty affects the civil and political rights of people living within the US, given the United States’ consistent emphasis on the importance it attaches to these rights in its foreign policy , and given that it has ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.”
Why the UN is investigating extreme poverty … in America, the world’s richest nation | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/01/un-extreme-poverty-america-special-rapporteur
The US poses an especially challenging subject for the UN special rapporteur because unlike all other industrialized nations, it fails to recognize fundamental social and economic rights such as the right to healthcare, a roof over your head or food to keep hunger at bay. The federal government has consistently refused to sign up to the international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights – arguing that these matters are best left to individual states.
Hey Reuters : Ken Roth’s Deep Devotion to US Empire Should Be Reported|Opinion|teleSUR
▻http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Hey-Reuters-Ken-Roths-Deep-Devotion-to-US-Empire-Should-Be-Reported-20171
Ken Roth wrote in 2015, “For all its faults, the U.S. government remains the world’s most powerful proponent of human rights.”
Dans les pays ennemis seulement ; dans les pays inféodés leur violation est au contraire fortement encouragée.
#Indonésie #Amérique_latine etc..
Dire poverty in US to worsen under Trump, threatening democracy, top UN official says | Article [AMP] | Reuters
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-poverty/dire-poverty-in-us-to-worsen-under-trump-threatening-democracy-top-un-offic
One illustration of horrific poverty and inequality, he said, was the comeback of hookworm, an intestinal parasite, in the South where local governments fail to provide clean water and sanitation and force people to pay for such services themselves.
While statistics show 14 percent of Americans live in poverty, so many more people live precariously on the edge that 20 percent is a more realistic figure, he said.
For example, he cited Wal-Mart Stores Inc workers who rely on government-issued food stamps because they cannot survive on what they earn at their fulltime jobs.
The United States has the lowest rate of social mobility among the world’s rich countries, meaning “the American dream is rapidly becoming the American illusion ,” he said.
“A child who is born into poverty has almost no chance of getting out of poverty in today’s United States,” he said.
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“Current trends in the United States are actually undermining democracy,” he added. “Poor people have no chance of having their voices heard, no chance of influencing public policy.”
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Alston said he was struck by views he encountered across the country that people see the rich as “enterprising, altruistic, hard-working, dedicated” and the poor as “losers, scammers, people trying to profit from the system.”
Those views are promoted by politicians to justify cuts in services and tax reforms that benefit the wealthy, he said.
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“The spiral downwards is fueled by public policy,” he said.
Leaked memo schooled Tillerson on human rights - POLITICO
►https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/19/tillerson-state-human-rights-304118
The May 17 memo reads like a crash course for a businessman-turned-diplomat, and its conclusion offers a starkly realist vision: that the U.S. should use human rights as a club against its adversaries, like Iran, China and North Korea, while giving a pass to repressive allies like the Philippines, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.