Declaração Universal dos Direitos do Homem.
Os Aborígenes participaram na redação dos Direitos Universais do Homem, ou os Cherokees, ou os Guarani, ou os Berberes? Parece-me que quem definiu os Direitos do Universais, partiu de um postulado que classifica as outras formas de pensar, as outras culturas, as outras "civilizações" como bárbaras, servindo-se desses Direitos do Homem, não raras vezes de forma arbitrária, como um pretexto, uma justificação moral para invadiram, colonizarem, explorarem.
Pedro, eu percebo-o, mas estou em "modo chato"
Denis J. Halliday (born c.1941) was the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq from 1 September 1997 until 1998. He was previously Deputy Resident Representative to Singapore of the United Nations Development Programme. He is Irish and holds an M.A. in Economics, Geography and Public Administration from Trinity College, Dublin.
After a 34-year career at the United Nations, where he had reached Assistant Secretary-General level, Halliday resigned in 1998 over the Iraq sanctions, characterizing them as "genocide". He subsequently gave the following explanation of his decision to resign:
"I often have to explain why I resigned from the United Nations after a 30 year career, why I took on the all powerful states of the UN Security Council; and why after five years I continue to serve the well being of the people of Iraq. In reality there was no choice, and there remains no choice. You all would have done the same had you been occupying my seat as head of the UN Humanitarian Program in Iraq.
I was driven to resignation because I refused to continue to take Security Council orders, the same Security Council that had imposed and sustained genocidal sanctions on the innocent of Iraq. I did not want to be complicit. I wanted to be free to speak out publicly about this crime.
And above all, my innate sense of justice was and still is outraged by the violence that UN sanctions have brought upon, and continues to bring upon, the lives of children, families – the extended families, the loved ones of Iraq. There is no justification for killing the young people of Iraq, not the aged, not the sick, not the rich, not the poor.
Some will tell you that the leadership is punishing the Iraqi people. That is not my perception, or experience from living in Baghdad. And were that to be the case – how can that possibly justify further punishment, in fact collective punishment, by the United Nations? I don’t think so. And international law has no provision for the disproportionate and murderous consequences of the ongoing UN embargo – for well over 12 long years"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSe5QidAI3s