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Cease hypocrisy on the issue of Human Rights



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3-15-06, 9:22 am

Cease hypocrisy on the issue of Human Rights


The 62nd Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights will begin next March 20th in Geneva, coinciding with the broadcasting of new footage of US military torturing Iraqi prisoners.

The United States and its EU allies have successively prevented this Commission from condemning the massive and systematic violations of human rights promoted in the name of the so called war against terrorism.

The EU governments have refused to admit the testimonies and evidences submitted by citizens of their countries, who have been victims of several forms of torture at Guantánamo navy base. They have also allowed the flight of CIA aircrafts carrying prisoners to illegal detention centers in Europe and elsewhere.

We the undersigned call upon intellectuals, artists, social activists, and men and women of goodwill everywhere to join our claims: the Commission on Human Rights or the Council that will substitute it, must demand the immediate closing of the arbitrary detention centers created by the United States as well as the ceasing of all these deliberate violations of human dignity.


Cese la hipocresía en el tema de los derechos humanos

Coincidiendo con la difusión de nuevas imágenes de torturas cometidas por militares estadounidenses contra prisioneros iraquíes, el próximo 20 de marzo se iniciará en Ginebra el 62 período de sesiones de la Comisión de Derechos Humanos de la ONU.

Estados Unidos y sus aliados de la Unión Europea han impedido
reiteradamente que esta Comisión se pronuncie contra las violaciones masivas y sistemáticas de los derechos humanos promovidas en nombre de la llamada guerra contra el terrorismo.

Los gobiernos de la Unión Europea se han negado a reconocer los testimonios y pruebas presentados por ciudadanos de sus países que han sufrido diversas formas de tortura en la base naval de Guantánamo. Han permitido, además, el tránsito de naves aéreas de la CIA que trasladaban prisioneros hacia centros ilegales de detención en la propia Europa y en otras regiones.

Los abajo firmantes convocamos a intelectuales, artistas, activistas sociales y a hombres y mujeres de buena voluntad para que se unan a nuestro reclamo: la Comisión de Derechos Humanos o el Consejo que la sustituirá debe exigir el cierre inmediato de los centros de detención arbitraria creados por los Estados Unidos y el cese de todas estas flagrantes violaciones de la dignidad humana.

Signed:

José Saramago, Portugal; Harold Pinter, Reino Unido; Nadine Gordimer, Sudáfrica; Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentina; Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemala; Wole Soyinka, Nigeria; Dario Fo, Italia; Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Irlanda del Norte; Danielle Mitterrand, Francia; Harry Belafonte, EEUU; Oscar Niemeyer, Brasil; Danny Glover, EEUU; Gerard Depardieu, Francia; Gianni Vattimo, Italia; Ignacio Ramonet, España-Francia; Alice Walker, EEUU; Manu Chao, Francia-España; Tariq Ali, Pakistán; Eduardo Galeano, Uruguay; Pierre Richard, Francia; Ettore Scola, Italia; Mario Benedetti, Uruguay; Naomi Klein, Canadá; Frei Betto, Brasil; Pablo González Casanova, México; Roberto Fernández Retamar, Cuba; Alfonso Sastre, España; Samir Amin, Egipto; Walter Salles, Brasil; Howard Zinn, EEUU; Armand Mattelart, Bélgica-Francia.... (and many more)


Para adherirse:
http://www.derechos-humanos.com; http://www.derechos-humanos.info;
http://www.droits-humains.info; http://www.hhrr.info

e.mail: derechoshumanos@derechos-humanos.com



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