Racial or ethnic discrimination: ethical and legal standards

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Description: * Combating discrimination against indigenous peoples * Combating discrimination against migrants * Combating discrimination against minorities * Combating discrimination against people with disabilities * Combating discrimination against women * Combating racial discrimination * Combating religious discrimination
Date of entry/update: 2010-11-23
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Language: English
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Source/publisher: Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of entry/update: 2010-11-24
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Description: "At the launch of the 2022 Joint Response Plan for the Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis in Bangladesh, U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas announced more than $152 million in additional humanitarian assistance for those in Bangladesh, Burma, and elsewhere in the region affected by the Burmese military’s genocide, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing against Rohingya. With this new funding, our total assistance for this response reaches more than $1.7 billion since August 2017, when over 740,000 Rohingya were forced to flee to safety in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. This announcement demonstrates our solidarity with Rohingya and the generous communities hosting them as well as our ongoing commitment to strengthening the international response to the Rohingya crisis and the escalating violence in Burma. The humanitarian assistance includes nearly $51 million from the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) and more than $101 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). With more than $125 million for programs specifically in Bangladesh, this funding will enable our humanitarian partners to provide life-saving assistance to the over 920,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. It also provides support to more than 540,000 affected members of the local host community in Bangladesh. This assistance helps ensure children and young adults have access to education and vocational training, provides families with food, healthcare, access to clean water and sanitation to prevent the spread of disease, supports the protection of Rohingya refugees’ human rights and well-being, strengthens disaster preparedness, and helps combat the effects of climate change. We commend our humanitarian partners for a strong and well-coordinated response as this crisis approaches its fifth year. The United States recognizes that Bangladesh and its people have taken on an enormous responsibility in hosting refugees. We are working with the Government of Bangladesh, Rohingya, and people within Burma toward finding solutions to this crisis, including the safe, voluntary, dignified, and sustainable return and reintegration of Rohingya refugees and internally displaced persons when conditions in Burma allow. Secretary Blinken has determined that members of the Burmese military committed genocide and crimes against humanity against Rohingya, and that many of those responsible for these atrocities are the same people who led the military coup in 2021 and ongoing violence across Burma. We are relentlessly pressuring Burma’s military regime to stop its violence and return to the path of democracy. At the same time, we also must expand education and livelihood opportunities, including cash-for-work programs and access to local markets, for Rohingya refugees in the region. Education and income-generating activities are among the most effective methods to create safer refugee camps in Bangladesh. The United States remains committed to delivering aid to Rohingya, and we welcome the generous pledges made by other donors at today’s event. However, more support is desperately needed. We urge other donors to come forward now with additional funds to sustain and increase support for the Rakhine State/Rohingya refugee crisis and those suffering from the escalating violence perpetrated by the genocidal military in Burma today..."
Source/publisher: United States Department of State
2022-03-29
Date of entry/update: 2022-03-30
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Description: ''The statement, delivered during an interactive dialogue with the UN International Fact Finding Mission, read as follows: “The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has monitored justice and human rights in Myanmar for more than five decades. The ICJ has an established presence in the country supporting justice actors to protect human rights through the rule of law. With this experience, the ICJ views the Independent International Fact Finding Mission’s conclusions as painting an authoritative picture of the general situation in Myanmar, particularly in its highlighting of the pervasive damage of military impunity upon human rights, rule of law and the nascent democratic process. The rule of law cannot be established, let alone flourish, without accountability for perpetrators of human rights violations and redress for victims and their families. The Fact Finding Mission’s findings of crimes under international law, including crimes against humanity in Rakhine, Kachin and Shan states, and the identification of alleged perpetrators, necessitate immediate action...''
Source/publisher: International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
2018-09-18
Date of entry/update: 2019-01-31
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Description: ''On 6 September 2018, an ICC Pre-Trial Chamber ruled that the Court could exercise jurisdiction over the alleged deportation (as a crime against humanity) of the Rohingyas from Myanmar into Bangladesh, since one element of the crime (crossing a border) took place in Bangladesh, which is a State party to the Rome Statute. The Chamber noted that the same rationale could apply to other crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court “if it were established that at least an element of another crime … or part of such a crime is committed on the territory of a State Party,” citing persecution and other inhumane acts as possible examples in this case. The crime of genocide was not directly addressed. The ruling did not address other crimes allegedly committed against the Rohingya, or crimes against other minorities elsewhere within Myanmar, including in Shan and Kachin States. The proceeding is still at an early, pre-investigation, phase. If at the conclusion of a preliminary examination the Prosecutor assesses that there is a reasonable basis to proceed with an investigation, she must first seek authorization from the Pre-Trial Chamber...''
Source/publisher: International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
2018-09-13
Date of entry/update: 2019-01-31
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Description: "...The Pali Canon has a very strong and unequivocal teaching that mental attachment is extremely detrimental – a biased view which asserts that people achieve freedom from suffering in any way other than their conduct is a distorted and perverted view. It is a mental attitude that leads to a very detrimental rebirth, and to pain and unhappiness in this life. It can be stated then with some certainty that in the Pali Canon there is a very strong teaching that any form of discourse that proposes a racist opinion is a wrong view, it will lead to suffering and, indeed, is dukkha itself. Those holding such opinions will not only suffer in the future but are themselves an expression of mental turmoil while holding such views. They are immersed in dukkha not metta."
Creator/author: Dr. Paul Fuller
Source/publisher: Mizzima
2012-08-17
Date of entry/update: 2012-08-17
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Language: English
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Source/publisher: Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of entry/update: 2010-11-24
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Language: English
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Description: Commission on Human Rights resolution 2003/54
Source/publisher: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of entry/update: 2010-11-23
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Description: Adopted and opened for signature and ratification by General Assembly resolution 2106 (XX) of 21 December 1965 ..... entry into force 4 January 1969, in accordance with Article 19
Source/publisher: Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of entry/update: 2010-11-23
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Language: English
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