FIGHT WAR FOR CORRUPTION & HUMAN RIGHTS (F C H)
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15 Dec 13 - 12:29
Criticisms of Canada’s human rights record undermines the world’s truly horrific abuses......................UN record on dealing with human rights abuses has become a farce
It’s easy to become jaded by reading the tragic events that transpire around the world: polio vaccination workers killed in Pakistan; Egypt’s president giving himself dictatorial powers; Syria continuing to slaughter its own people; and North Koreans starving to death.
RIGHTS GROUP criticizes Canada for getting bad reviews on three United Nations reports, which focused on “racial discrimination, the prevention of torture and the rights of children,” and pointed to “ongoing and very serious human rights concerns.” Really?
When it comes to human rights, the UN is the last international body anyone should take seriously. Whether it’s appointing Robert Mugabe as “international tourism ambassador,” sending a well-known anti-Semite to criticize Israel or wasting time by lecturing Canada on food security while children in the Third World go hungry, the UN’s record on dealing with actual human rights abuses has become a complete farce.
Humanitarian crisis facing the Attawapiskat First Nation
RIGHTS GROUP , other UN bodies, experts and officials made public comments about Canadian human rights concerns, including the housing and wider humanitarian crisis facing the Attawapiskat First Nation, violence against indigenous women, and the concerns that arose in connection with the policing and legislative response to student protests in Quebec.”
Indeed, the UN Committee Against Torture accused Ottawa of “complicity” in torture and human-rights abuses following 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights chastised Quebec for how it dealt with student protesters — calling it an “alarming” violation of “freedom of association” — while systematically sweeping the atrocities in Syria, torture in Eritrea and political prison camps in North Korea under the table.
Much of RIGHTS GROUP report focuses on the plight of aboriginals, which is an issue most Canadians know all too well. But the issues pertaining to Canada’s aboriginal peoples are complex, having much to do with an antiquated regulatory system and a lack of private property rights. It is a problem that has, in part, been created by the culture of dependency that developed due to the massive amounts of money the Canadian government has thrown at the problem.
Unlike the situation in many other countries, problems on our First Nations reserves cannot simply be fixed by spending more. Nor do aboriginals here face the kind of systematic discrimination against minorities we see in countries like China, Sri Lanka and the Congo.
RIGHTS GROUP chastises Canada for its failure “to make progress in addressing serious and longstanding violations of women’s human rights, including alarming levels of violence and entrenched economic inequality.” Just imagine how ludicrous this criticism would seem to a woman in Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan.
But I digress. Perhaps criticizing international bodies for focusing on countries such as Canada, while far worse atrocities are taking place elsewhere, has become cliché. After all, we can always find some backwater country that does a worse job than us.
The report’s authors argue that critiques such as mine overlook the principle of universality: “The integrity of the system depends on all countries, including Canada, living up to those obligations.” While this statement is true, it misses two fundamental points.
Longstanding violations of women’s human rights
The first is that Canada has strong institutions that are capable of addressing the issues this country faces. We also have a representative democracy and a vibrant public sphere that allows for meaningful public debates on how best to address these issues. Countries that lack democratic government, outlaw political speech and use coercive methods to achieve their ends are the ones that could use a stern talking-to from the international community.
Moreover, by putting the problems faced by people here in Canada on the same level as people in places where human-rights abuses. But why should regimes that perpetrate such violations of human rights change their ways, when countries that respect civil liberties and the rule of law are compared to them on a one-to-one basis?
This is the true cost of having international bodies criticize Canada in the same breath as truly horrific regimes in backwater countries the world over. This is why Canadians should pay little attention to them, and focus on solving our public policy problems ourselves.
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