Human Rights Council 27nd Session
Intervention for Item 4
Human Rights Situations that Require the Council’s Attention
16 September 2014
Mr. President and Members of the Human Rights Council,
Aloha.
A Human Rights Situations that Require the Council’s Attention is the issue of the right to self-determination, which is at the root of human rights violations in Alaska and Hawaii.
In 1959 the United States flagrantly manipulated and subverted the UN de-colonization process to extinguish the Alaskan and Hawaiian people’s right to self-determination. This violation continues today and needs to be corrected.
In 2006, Hawaii submitted to the Human Rights Committee a shadow report enumerating the numerous violations committed by the United States against the Hawaiian people ever since the unprovoked and unjustified invasion of the Hawaiian Islands by the USA in 1893.
Some of the human rights violations include: the confiscation of native Hawaiian lands and eviction and displacement of its inhabitants; the desecration of burials and sacred sites; the consignment of native Hawaiians to poverty by the imposition of an adverse foreign economic system; the destruction of the language and culture; and the forceful suppression of the Hawaiian people’s national identity, and so forth ...all of which contribute to the systematic, orchestrated denial of the right to self-determination.
We urge the Human Rights Council to call upon the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to transmit the Alaska and Hawaii Article 15 ICERD petition to the appropriate UN bodies to review the procedures that the U.S. used to make Alaska and Hawaii federal states of the United States.
IASSW also wishes to emphasize the need for governments to endorse the Second Guiding Principles to Eradicate Extreme Poverty with an eye toward an internationally legally binding Convention to Abolish Extreme Poverty.
Mahalo a nui loa,
Leon K. Siu
The Koani Foundation
Ke Aupuni O Hawaii
IASSW
Intervention for Item 4
Human Rights Situations that Require the Council’s Attention
16 September 2014
Mr. President and Members of the Human Rights Council,
Aloha.
A Human Rights Situations that Require the Council’s Attention is the issue of the right to self-determination, which is at the root of human rights violations in Alaska and Hawaii.
In 1959 the United States flagrantly manipulated and subverted the UN de-colonization process to extinguish the Alaskan and Hawaiian people’s right to self-determination. This violation continues today and needs to be corrected.
In 2006, Hawaii submitted to the Human Rights Committee a shadow report enumerating the numerous violations committed by the United States against the Hawaiian people ever since the unprovoked and unjustified invasion of the Hawaiian Islands by the USA in 1893.
Some of the human rights violations include: the confiscation of native Hawaiian lands and eviction and displacement of its inhabitants; the desecration of burials and sacred sites; the consignment of native Hawaiians to poverty by the imposition of an adverse foreign economic system; the destruction of the language and culture; and the forceful suppression of the Hawaiian people’s national identity, and so forth ...all of which contribute to the systematic, orchestrated denial of the right to self-determination.
We urge the Human Rights Council to call upon the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to transmit the Alaska and Hawaii Article 15 ICERD petition to the appropriate UN bodies to review the procedures that the U.S. used to make Alaska and Hawaii federal states of the United States.
IASSW also wishes to emphasize the need for governments to endorse the Second Guiding Principles to Eradicate Extreme Poverty with an eye toward an internationally legally binding Convention to Abolish Extreme Poverty.
Mahalo a nui loa,
Leon K. Siu
The Koani Foundation
Ke Aupuni O Hawaii
IASSW
