Monday, February 07, 2011

Do You Think She'll Be Visiting Me?

Who?

Her: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay

Reported:-

UN Human Rights Chief to visit Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, will visit Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory from 6-11 February 2011.

During her visit, Pillay will meet officials at the highest level, including Israeli President Shimon Peres, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. Pillay is also scheduled to meet a number of ministers on both sides, members of the Israeli Knesset and the president of the Supreme Court of Israel.

The High Commissioner will use the opportunity to meet Israeli and Palestinian human rights defenders, the Palestinian Independent Commission on Human Rights, and UN agencies working on the ground.

In Israel, Pillay will pay her respects at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and visit Sderot, the Bialik-Rogozin school and the Human Rights class at Darraj Elementary Coed School.

The High Commissioner plans include, among others, tours to parts of the West Bank, as well as Gaza, including Beit Hanoun, to speak to affected groups and get a first-hand view of the situation on the ground.

The High Commissioner will hold a press conference at 12:00 on Friday, 11 February 2011 at the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem.

She is, among other things, in charge of indingenous peoples who are defined variously as by the ILO’s Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169) as

o Tribal peoples whose social, cultural and economic conditions distinguish them from other sections of the national community, and whose status is regulated wholly or partially by their own customs or traditions or by special laws or regulations.
o Peoples who are regarded as indigenous on account of their descent from the populations which inhabited the country, or a geographical region to which the country belongs, at the time of conquest or colonisation or the establishment of present state boundaries and who, irrespective of their legal status, retain some or all of their own social, economic, cultural and political institutions.
o The Convention also states that self-identification as indigenous or tribal shall be regarded as a fundamental criterion for determining the groups to which the provisions of this Convention apply

and by The Study on the discrimination against indigenous peoples (Martínez Cobo Study)'s “working definition” as:

Indigenous communities, peoples and nations are those which, having a historical continuity with pre-invasion and precolonial societies that developed on their territories, consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing in those territories, or parts of them.  They form at present non-dominant sectors of society and are determined to preserve, develop and transmit to future generations their ancestral territories, and their ethnic identity, as the basis of their continued existence as peoples, in accordance with their own cultural patterns, social institutions and legal systems

I think those would apply to me and my family and neighbors and friends living in Judea and Samaria.

Navi, shall I put on the coffee and we'll discuss my human rights, among them, the one enshrined in the League of Nations decision, which included:

...that the Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November 2nd, 1917, by the Government of His Britannic Majesty, and adopted by the said Powers, in favour of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country...

...recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country...

...the country [will be placed] under such political, administrative and economic conditions as will secure the establishment of the Jewish national home, as laid down in the preamble, and the development of self -governing institutions, and also for safeguarding the civil and religious rights of all the inhabitants of Palestine, irrespective of race and religion...

...local autonomy.

...no Palestine territory shall be ceded or leased to, or in any way placed under the control of, the Government of any foreign Power.

...the rights and position of other sections of the population are not prejudiced, shall facilitate Jewish immigration under suitable conditions and shall encourage, in co-operation with the Jewish agency, referred to in Article 4, close settlement by Jews, on the land, including State lands and waste lands not required for public purposes.

The Administration of Palestine shall be responsible for enacting a nationality law. There shall be included in this law provisions framed so as to facilitate the acquisition of Palestinian citizenship by Jews who take up their permanent residence in Palestine.

...safeguard the interests of the community in connection with the development of the country, and, subject to any international obligations accepted by the Mandatory, shall have full power to provide for public ownership or control of any of the natural resources of the country or of the public works, services and utilities established or to be established therein. It shall introduce a land system appropriate to the needs of the country, having regard, among other things, to the desirability of promoting the close settlement and intensive cultivation of the land.

...A special Commission shall be appointed by the Mandatory to study, define and determine the rights and claims in connection with the Holy Places and the rights and claims relating to the different religious communities in Palestine...complete freedom of conscience and the free exercise of all forms of worship, subject only to the maintenance of public order and morals, are ensured to all. No discrimination of any kind shall be made between the inhabitants of Palestine on the ground of race, religion or language. No person shall be excluded from Palestine on the sole ground of his religious belief.


...forces necessary for the preservation of peace and order, and also for the defence of the country...to use the roads, railways and ports of Palestine for the movement of armed forces and the carriage of fuel and supplies.

...no discrimination in Palestine against the nationals of any State Member of the League of Nations...

...the execution of a Law of Antiquities...

Those are good human rights. And they need protection.

Navi?


UPDATE


Navi, don't you think it's "human" and "right" to visit with and hear the other side?

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay toured the West Bank Monday and inspected the situation of Palestinians living in Area C.

Fayyad and Navi Pillay visited a house in a village near Ramallah city, which was surrounded by barbed wire away from a nearby Jewish settlement.

Pillay and Fayyad heard from the owner of the house about living conditions in Area C, which, according to the owner, under "harassments" from both soldiers and settlers.

"The house is an address for Palestinian steadfastness and insistence, despite it is isolated by settlement construction and Israeli military procedures," Fayyad said.

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2 comments:

YMedad said...

Received:

Dear Mr Medad

I am unable to go into the details of Ms Pillay's visit, but she will be visiting a number of sites in Israel and meeting with senior Israeli officials during her trip.

Regards,

Richard Miron
Chief Public Information Officer
United Nations Special Coordinator's Office
Telephone: +972 2 568 7289
Fax: +972 2 568 7288
Mobile: +972 54 5627825
Email: mironr@un.org
www.unsco.org

Anonymous said...

She cancelled an appearance at Bar Ilan University