Council for Afrika slams UN on human rights abuses in Africa
The Council for Afrika International, a UK-based think-tank has commended the architects of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and advocated full manifestation of the spirit and letter of the declaration.
The body also challenged the UN, global and African leaders to deliver the intents, purposes, outcomes and impact of the declaration to Africans to give credibility to the progress of human civilisation.
Dr Koku Adomdza, President of the body who made this known in a statement copied to the Ghana News Agency said “To say the least, it is a flaw of immense ramifications, that 62 years after its proclamation, the fundamental human rights of the majority of global Africans are violated on daily basis, through an unethical interlock of institutional and procedural mesh.”
It said throughout history, progress, justice and rights were protected by courageous and selfless leaders as well as ordinary people doing extraordinary things well.
Afrika International called for the setting up of Patriotic African Paradigm Taskforce to produce fit-for-purpose paradigms aimed at eliminating the multiple afflictions of Africa and its people that so extensively and deeply violate their fundamental human rights.
The statement said: “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racism, Convention on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples… have been in existence for over half a century and yet Africa and the majority of its people have not benefited meaningfully.
“Afrika International considers it reprehensible that regardless of the enactment of Human Rights Conventions, periodic world conferences on racism and others, the majority of Africans are destitute with most of their fundamental human rights unrealised.
“The UN Expert Group on Africa has become largely bureaucratic with reports that have no impact on the rights crises in Africa and on Africans.”
It said 200 years since the abolition of the Slave Trade Act, Africa and its people were afflicted with Afrophobia, African Holocaust, African Conundrum in the form of a long-term horrific unleashing of a tradition and legacy of reign of terror on the fundamental human rights of the people worldwide.
“Afrika International believes there are grounds not only for a Declaration of a State of Emergency (in Africa), but a 21st Century Economic Justice Plan, the competent implementation of which will restore fundamental human rights, peace and stability on the African Continent and respect for Global Africans as Equal Global Citizens with full Global Citizenship Rights.
“Afrika International considers this call a worthy agenda for the 21st Century and requests the UN Secretary General, the UN, and the Africa Union to avail themselves of golden opportunities of time, to make enduring substantive qualitative difference to the lives of many and change the destiny of majority Africans, the African Continent and humankind.
Source: GNA