I also cite ""glory" to Amnesty International on giving voice to Poverty in Guatemala and Pollution in Nigeria although ILO and Greenpeace could have been with us on these two! I also note, as a small remark that the two "cases haven't been brought to the Courts!"I could have made a list like this, please, improve on these points if they are not already in place.
They concern policies regarding drugs and drug-addicts. The list includes support for public injection rooms and the, of course, right to housing and so on... Usually not considered the most important, but this point has been added for more than one reason, both of them in a sense GOOD!
(This is also notified in my "Objection to Rawls" on the basis of the "politicised" situation of poor people edging to being criminalised people by the State, incredible enough, for Heaven's sake! But so and so... triumphing point: YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND!)
This is in line with the call for Amnesty International to return to the courts and more traditional approaches to legal work. So if we/they are to approach poverty in Guatemala again we/they contact International Labour Organisation and make campaigning alongside them for Guatemalans to get organised under ILO and at the same time, enable the opposition, the employers to get organised, thus establishing traditional two-party negotiations, in fact, founding the society as such on a "capitalistic"/mixed economy note on how fast they can or will develop and how much "blood" they are to pay for it, that is, are forced by "Western Standards" to sell themselves cheaply or can we/they alter these relations of business/power to something better!
I know this suggestion (with ILO) breaks with US American traditions of non-organisation union-wise, but I think they can sit on their stubbornness and sob in their overweight while the World progresses! I see no other alternative to organisation and paranoia really needs to be laid aside to the advantage of better personal preparedness and so on...
I can make one on pollution in Nigeria as well, mentioning engineering groups (IEEE, JPEG), environmental group of the sane kind, not some hysteria, and lastly some respects to the country's poverty, giving the oil-industry an environment certification of its own department, if the engineering group fails to come up with an internationally recognised standard of the affordable kind, perhaps in a kind of two-tier, developed and developing run/progress (of society and industry)!
Note: Posted by L.F.O.-L. at 22:48:00
Labels: Amnesty International, ILO
5 comments:
L.F.O.-L.30 October 2011 00:32
I've earlier criticised Amn. Int. for being "dogmatically" against the Death Penalty. My objection is that Europe today runs too deep "in blood" to have this "angelic" attitude. We need to get out of our well-fed citizen slumber. There are murderers out there who are hideous beyond words, and why they run free? No, the society is in a SERIOUS condition and I think we need to get _real_ about society again and reinstate the Death Penalty, perhaps even HARDER than the U. S. Americans! (People should have access on a more common level to who these people are and mature adults with a good stomach /can/ (awful book) read American Psycho, this NOT being fiction. I fear we have a subculture of death running *loose*, and this isn't about anyone either! People are being COERCED well beyond the HUMAN RIGHTS which were supposed to be the *heart* of Amn. Int. Get real, please!)
L.F.O.-L.26 April 2012 01:12
Social awareness campaigns by posters/"marketing" are suggested for GUNS under "lieu" of Article 3 of UN Decl. of Human Rights (possible gun deaths by 2 sec. by suitable size of bullet to the head, but NOT grievous torture instances lasting days and weeks! Heck, even the bottle drawn kids (with that /detached/ voice (of Erich Hess quality) dying at 10, _usually_, not having known... much else than pains and degradation under very disturbed and sinister people! NoW! Where are these "personalities"? Not behind bars or under strict programs, I assume! As we rather, proudly, cite "low "populations" of criminals in prisons! "How rude! How can they imprison criminals like that?" Have we gotten it upside-down??? Do you mind, please?!
(Another point to make is for some people, or fewer, to lay down that _decent_ (if not the perfect) record of Amnesty's work and also highlight the holes in contrast to this work, given the FACTS! There is a history to tell, and certainly one on archiving routines and how much "introduction" people have been given on torture and "methods of capital punishment" (fx. by grounded-3 ways-plain-home-electrical chair execution)! I also like to note the lack of enduring data from this list of core commitment, in particular by the nature of what one finds in "academic (and long-lasting) _programs_", with of course, the same standard of data-record persistence!)
PS: I write this under a hope that this impels a better future, with such FORCE that this possible future becomes impossible to break away from, if not anything better than exactly this!
L.F.O.-L.6 May 2012 19:45
Criticism of Amnesty Int. is now suspected to have pierced through! They have been naughty and I expect disciplinary corrections from now on, that is, an end to cowboy-culture and "flashin' lawyer credits and /agents/ (saving humanity everyday by symbolism)"! Alright? The work that remains now for the historians is piecemeal and "dinner is prepared"!!! "Go, go, go!"
I'm sorry that I've notified this twice to Amnesty Int., but the two postings are hopefully and tastefully enough placed and pardoned! Cheers!
Note: First posted on Facebook moments ago.
L.F.O.-L.9 August 2012 10:23
Over the brain: the eyes have an anatomical similarity to the ears, so the "snail-houses" of the ears deep inside the head are the same for the eyes, that the cords from the eye-apples end up in similar "snail-houses". I think or I accuse the med. doctors have kept this fact away from the public for a reason and that they have and have had dubious motivations for doing so, furthering the "Dachau-grade" tortureous experiments of the Nazis into the modernity!!!
Mind a relevant fact also of these "adopted E.T. people" with brownishly sick bodies, hunger-struck bellies, crippled short feet, surgically extended necks (for wanting pains to end) and Dr. Schwein-grade altered heads (all, incl. brain and bone structures alike). I JUST SAY IT: THE ETHICAL DUTIES (OF THE HARDEST KINDS) ARE CLEAR!!! GET TO IT AND GET IT DONE!!!
(And tape-streamers too into people from 1984!!!)
You know the quote from "Se7en": [Loosely, And people are so dumb] they need the hard blow with a bat to get their strict attention!
I'm warning you!!! (From my Facebook profile, Leonardo F. Olsnes-Lea, moments ago.)
L.F.O.-L.9 August 2012 10:25
Further note also, as the "experts" have lost their "walking sights", I encourage the Amnesty International to be transformed to broad people's movements as soon as possible, on a decentralised basis, picking up on cases as they like!!!
I note that for the Amnesty International's Report of 2011, no references are supplied and I'm uncertain of which reporting standards it fulfills. This may be serious and should be reviewed by Amnesty itself, given all the modern possibilities for system and systematic inquiries in _defeating_ injustice and _protecting_ human rights!
ReplyDeleteEurope (as home to Amnesty) has vast reporting opportunities while poor and disorganised countries and regions have severe difficulties in supplying reports or material to this end. This last group probably requires the most efforts and working hours as well!
The solution is, of course, to improve reporting routines (as with manufacturing plants and probably under some ISO standard too, 9001(?)) and make sure that progress with the reporting takes place also so that the Amnesty's annual reports can "brag" (as in "we're advancing and removal of most problems are envisioned") about some kind of completeness somewhere into the future.
*Description is incredibly important in order to remove a problem. If the problem goes undescribed, you end up *not* knowing what or where to "attack"!