Muslim protest in Alquds

ArayaHuman Rights Organization

منظمة الراية لحقوق الانسان

Arayahro@yahoo.ie

25/10/2009
Muslim protest in Alquds
Condemnation of the Israeli army for going into the AlAqsa Mosque. Entering places of worship without permission is against human rights rule for respecting other religion’s places of worship.
1981 Declaration of the General Assembly
Art. 6 (a) : The right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief includes the freedom, "To worship or assemble in connection with a religion or belief, and to establish and maintain places for these purposes;".
Commission on Human Rights resolution 2005/40
4 (b) : The Commission on Human Rights urges States, "To exert the utmost efforts, in accordance with their national legislation and in conformity with international human rights law, to ensure that religious places, sites, shrines and religious expressions are fully respected and protected and to take additional measures in cases where they are vulnerable to desecration or destruction;".
4 (d) : The Commission on Human Rights urges States, "To ensure, in particular, the right of all persons to worship or assemble in connection with a religion or belief and to establish and maintain places for these purposes [.];".
Human Rights Committee general comment 22
Para . 4 : "The concept of worship extends to [.] the building of places of worship."
We urge the human rights organization to stand firm against this desecration of the AlAqsa Mosque.
We request the Israeli government to stop its bad intervention in the Alaqsa Mosque and to stop frightening the worshippers.
We urge the UN human rights to bring those involved to the international court of Justice.
Administration

استنكار لما يحدث في الحرم القدسي
نستنكر وبشدة ما يحدث من انتهاكات في الحرم القدسي. ان الدخول الى اماكن العبادة بالقوة شئ لا يتماشى مع حقوق الانسان ولا مع الراي العام العالمي , ويعتبر جريمة.
إعلان الجمعية العامة لحقوق الانسان 1981م:
فقرة 6 أ. حق حرية التفكير, الرأي, الدين او الاعتقاد ويشمل الحريات "للتعبد او الاجتماع اجتماعا متصلا بمعتقد ديني او بمعتقد. واقامة وصيانة اماكن خاصة لهذا الغرض."
الهيئة العامة لحقوق الانسان 2005. 40
4.ب. الهيئة العامة لحقوق الانسان تطالب الحكومات بان " تمارس اقصى جهدهم بما يتماشى مع قوانينهم وقوانين الهيئة العامة لحقوقو الانسان , بان اماكن العبادة ومواقعها والمباني وتعبيراتها يجب ان تحترم كلية, ووجب عليها تحميها, وخاصة اماكن العبادة التي تتعرض لطمس الهوية او الهدم.
4.د. الهيئة العامة لحقوق الانسان تهيب الحكومات " بان يضمنوا حق العبادة لكل شخص يريد الاجتماع بسبب معتقد او دين , واقامة وصيانة اماكن العبادة او التجمع لذلك الغرض"
الهيئة العامة لحقوق الانسان تعليق 22
فقرة 4. "فكرة العبادة تضمن اقامة اماكن العبادة"
ولهذا نهيب بجميع المنظمات الحقوقية بان تقف وقفة صامدة ضد التعسفات والاعتداءات الاسرائيلية على هوية الحرم القدسي. ونطالب الحكومة الاسرائيلية بان تتوقف عن تدخلها في شئون المسجد الاقصى.
ونطالب بمحاكمة دولية عادلة للذين اعتدوا على المصلين وتسببوا في ترويعهم من الجيش والشرطة واليهود المتشددين.

الادارة

اعلانات سابقة بشان محاكمة المسؤولين عن انتهاكات حقوق الانسان
Previous published declarations

ArayaHuman Rights Organizationمنظمة الراية لحقوق الانسان
arayahro@yahoo.ie
19th Jan 2009
“THE ISRAELIS PRACTICE THE SAME TACTICS as the Holocaust practiced on them
GRANDCHILDREN OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS FROM WORLD WAR II ARE DOING TO THE PALESTINIANS EXACTLY WHAT WAS ALLGEDLY DONE TO THEM BY NAZI GERMANY…” said an enthusiastic heart speaking man in the demonstrations against Israel bombing of Gaza.
Appalled by the situation concerning the children of Gaza and the suffering they went through and the kind of bombs that had been detonated in the region containing white phosphorous. Some would have been enriched with depleted uranium and the siege that added to the hunger and the suffering of the people. All this can be called the holocaust of the 21st created by the Israeli state.
We as a human rights organization hold the united nation and the Security Council together with the Israeli state as responsible for the aforementioned holocaust. USA and Europe should withdraw their endless support to the Israeli state from the Middle East and we demand that Olmert , Barack and Tzipi Livni should be tried in the international court of Justice. The atrocity that has been seen in the Middle East should never arise again in any part of the world.

Seeking Help in Palestine1. See the children of the world seeking help in Palestineseeking help in Palestine
2. We are the children of the world crying for help in Palestine crying for help in Palestine
3. Our land is taken forcibly our houses demolished day and night
4. See what the future is going to be see were we going to shelter for the night
5. We are the future of the world killed by the Zionist in Palestine
6. Shooting randomly showering bombs to kill the hope in the mind
7. Building a wall of hatred against the wishes of mankind
8.We are the future we are the hope we are the light of Palestine Ah we are the light of Palestine
9. Fifty years of refuges of fighting never seen a resting time never seen a resting time
10. Stop aggression stop occupation stop the genocide of the people of Palestine
11. Give us the chance to live in peace to have our land to turn it into paradise
12. Give us the chance to live in peace to have our land to turn it into paradise
13. Give us the chance to live in peace to have our land to turn it into paradise
14. See the children of the world seeking help in Palestineseeking help in Palestine
Lyric by Dr. Bashir Lasceabai
Music by Eric
Children singing : Safa, Marwa, Mariam Aburraouf, and Hajer Anniami

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ArayaHuman Rights Organizationمنظمة الراية لحقوق الانسان
arayahro@yahoo.ie
26th Jan 2009
WANTED

مطلوبون للعدالة
All Children Killers
كل قاتل للاطفال
To be tried by the International Human Rights Court

Tzipi Livni Ehud BARAK and rice Ehud Olmert and Bush

لمحاكمتهم في المحكمة العالمية لحقوق الانسان




Administration

President Barack Obama, speaks at the Human Rights Campaign

President Barack Obama, speaks at the Human Rights Campaign national dinner, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009, in Washington.

October 23, 2009

"Does Obama Believe in Human Rights?" asks Bret Stephens in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal. According to Stephens, the answer is a resounding "no." Citing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's statement on a visit to China earlier this year that human rights should not interfere with other pressing issues, Stephens writes indignantly, "It takes a remarkable degree of cynicism — or perhaps cowardice — to treat human rights as something that 'interferes' with America's purposes in the world, rather than as the very thing that ought to define them."
It takes a remarkable degree of cynicism — and chutzpah — for Bret Stephens to have written that sentence. This is the same Bret Stephens who, two years ago, in this tendentious column, defended the Bush administration against "inflated, imprecise and tendentious allegations of torture." Waterboarding, Stephens allowed, was unpleasant business, but did not "properly" qualify as torture.
Stephens is nauseated that the Obama administration is engaging regimes such as Burma. He does not bother to mention that the great Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi supports the administration's policy of engaging the junta running her country, or that human rights activists have long been divided over whether sanctions against Burma help or hinder the expansion of freedom. There is no inherent conflict between engagement and the promotion of human rights, just as isolating a country (see Cuba) doesn't necessarily hamper an authoritarian ruler's ability to stay in power and suppress political freedom.
Does this mean Obama's record on human rights has been perfect? Of course not. He has spoken forcefully — but acted otherwise — on indefinite detention and the treatment of detainees. He apparently refused to meet with the Dalai Lama in order not to rankle China's leaders. In this as on other matters, he has made it clear that he is a cautious realist, not a crusading idealist.
But those who pine for a more crusading figure should think back to the Bush era. They should also pause to consider whether any US President has ever made human rights the thing that defines America's purpose in the world, and whether - if Obama opted for such a course - it would be appropriate. As Stephen Walt usefully points out at the Politico, which invited various analysts to assess whether Obama is "punting" on human rights: "Of course he is. No U.S. President — not even Jimmy Carter — was ever willing to spend a lot of blood or treasure solely to advance human rights, and Obama isn't going to be the first. And given that the U.S. record on this issue looks has been tarnished by Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, forced rendition, "enhanced interrogation" (aka torture), extra-judicial killings (aka "targeted assassinations"), our reaction to the Goldstone Report, and the thousands dead as a result of the invasion of Iraq, I'd say a bit of humility on this front was probably in order."

UN rights council endorses damning Gaza report

By Hui Min Neo

GENEVA — The UN Human Rights Council endorsed a report on Friday that accused Israel and the Palestinian hardliners Hamas of war crimes in the Gaza conflict, dealing a fresh diplomatic blow to the Jewish state.
While Israel had said such a move would be tantamount to "rewarding terror", the Palestinians welcomed the resolution which it said should be the trigger for follow-up action from the UN Security Council.
Some 25 of the council's 47 members, led by the Arab and African states, voted for the resolution. Six, including the United States, voted against while 16 others either abstained or did not vote.
The resolution calls for the endorsement of "the recommendations contained in the report" produced by a fact-finding mission led by international war crimes prosecutor Richard Goldstone to probe the 22-day conflict.
It also "calls upon all concerned parties including United Nations bodies, to ensure their implementation."
Israel slams 'unjust' report
Goldstone concluded that both Israel and Hamas, Gaza's rulers, committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity during the conflict launched by Israel in response to rocket fire from the enclave in late December 2008.
The report also recommends referring its conclusions to the International Criminal Court prosecutor in The Hague, if Israel and Hamas fail to conduct credible investigations within six months.
The vote came just two days after Israel and the Palestinians came under international pressure during a UN Security Council debate on the Middle East to produce "credible" domestic probes of war crimes allegedly committed during the Gaza conflict.
Welcoming the outcome, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said the international action should not end there.
"We hope this will be followed up in the UN Security Council to ensure such Israeli crimes are not repeated," Erakat told AFP.
While there was no immediate response from Israel, its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had earlier urged the council to reject the resolution.
"Responsible nations have to vote against this decision that supports terror and harms peace," Netanyahu told reporters after a meeting with visiting Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero late Thursday.
Explaining Washington's reasons for opposing the resolution, US ambassador Douglas Griffiths said: "We had worked for a resolution that recognized the right of a state to take legitimate action to protect its citizens in the face of threats to their security while also condemning violations of international law regardless of the actor.
"Regrettably, this is not the resolution that is before us today."
The Islamist movement Hamas is regarded by Israel and the West as a terrorist organisation after carrying out dozens of suicide attacks.
The conflict in Gaza, that erupted on 27 December 2008, left 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead.
Meanwhile, Goldstone himself, who was in Bern for a conference Thursday, also criticised the UN Council resolution for targetting only Israel and failing to include Hamas.
The UN resolution is peppered with references to "recent Israeli violations of human rights in occupied east Jerusalem" but failed to make any direct mention to Hamas.
"This draft resolution saddens me as it includes only allegations against Isreal. There is not a single phrase condemning Hamas as we have done in the report. I hope that the council can modify the text," said Goldstone in remarks published in Swiss newspaper Le Temps ahead of the vote.
On the Net:
UN Human Rights Council: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/

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