KE AUPUNI UPDATE - MAY 2025
Primary Objectives at the UN in Geneva
During the last two weeks of June, I will be at the UN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland to participate in Session 59 of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to continue protesting the egregious human rights violations being perpetrated on the Hawaiian people by the United States in its prolonged illegal occupation of the Hawaiian Islands.
There are five items that we are urging the Members of the Human Rights Council and other members of the United Nations and the international community to act upon:
To call on the HRC to urge the UN General Assembly to conduct a review of the adoption of UN General Assembly Resolution 1469 of 12 December 1959, by which the United Nations became complicit in the United States’ fraud of Hawaii statehood.
To call for a stop to the State of Hawaii’s ongoing taking and selling of lands, private and public, and for the return of these lands to their rightful owners as defined, secured and protected under the laws of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
To call for a stop to the State of Hawaii’s arbitrary detention, incarceration, property seizure and other forms of discriminatory persecution and harassment directed at Hawaiian Nationals living in the Hawaiian Islands.
To strongly object to the United States hyper-militarization of Hawaii which makes the Island of Oahu, and its 1 million people the target for nuclear annihilation by enemies of the United States.
To question the United States at its upcoming (October 2025) Universal Periodic Review (UPR) regarding the serious human rights violations being perpetrated in the Hawaiian Islands.
Those are the 5 main items we are pursuing at the UN in Geneva.
Item 5 refers to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a formal review of the Human Rights policies and record of each member of the United Nations. It takes about 5 years for the Review to cycle through each of the 193 Member States of the United Nations.
The reviews take place at the Human Rights Council meetings in Geneva. The Koani Foundation and Ke Aupuni Hawaii filed reports and attended the first 4 USA reviews. I am pleased to report that a few weeks ago we again filed a Shadow Report with the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights (Read it here - TinyURL.com/UNShadowReport) and this Fall, we will attend the 5th UPR of the USA.
Aloha ʻĀina —
“Love of country is deep-seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station.” — Queen Liliʻuokalani
Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono.
The sovereignty of the land is perpetuated in righteousness.
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Leon Siu
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