Human Rights
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I was just discussing it with my olds, and they said we should start mass mailing all of the human rights lawyers to get on board with the cause.
Needed
- List of human rights representatives to contact
- Letter template of what to say
- Examples of Scientology breaching human rights
Synopsys
Having worked through the 30 clauses of the Declaration of Human Rights, it's apparent that the CoS do a pretty outstanding job of violating almost every clause. Violations fall mainly into 2 camps, Sea Org, and the treatment of SPs. Most of the labour protection laws are violated in the Sea Org. Most of the protections for free speech/thought/assembly etc. are violated in the treatment of SPs.
Violation by CoS
Areas of violation are tagged against the article violated as follows: SP - Suppressive Persons/Declares SO - Sea Org personnel SOC - Children of Sea Org personnel RPF - Rehabilitation Project Force Al - Sea Org aliens deprived of passports ScP - Scientology Public
Article 1 - SP
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Article 2 - SP
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Article 3 - SP
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Article 4 - SO/Al/RPF
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Article 5 - RPF
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Article 6 - SP/Al
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Article 7 - SP/Al
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Article 8 - ScP/SO
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Article 9 - ScP/RPF/Al
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile. http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Article 10 - ScP/SO/SP
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him. http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Article 11 - RPF/SP
1. Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
2. No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed. http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Article 12 - ScP/SO/Al/SP
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Article 16 - SO
(1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
(3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Article 18 - SP
This report addresses the human right to freedom of religion and belief in Australia under article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The right includes the freedom to have or adopt a religion or belief of one's choice, including theistic, non-theistic and atheistic beliefs.
The freedom of religion and belief extends to the right to manifest one's religion or belief in worship, observance, practice and teaching. The right to manifest a belief is subject only to limitations provided by law which are necessary to protect public safety, order, health or morals or the fundamental rights and freedoms of others.
The report concludes that current laws are inadequate to protect the right to manifest Indigenous beliefs and religious beliefs concerning autopsies and medical procedures such as blood transfusions. It recommends the development of appropriate laws and guidelines which properly accommodate the right to manifest these beliefs and practices. Laws criminalising some Pagan practices are discriminatory, violate the freedom of belief and should be repealed.
The report recommends the enactment of a federal Religious Freedom Act covering all aspects of the right. The Act should make discrimination and vilification on the ground of religion and belief unlawful.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Article 19 - SP
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Article 22 - SO/Al
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Article 23 - SO/RPF/Al
1. Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
2. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
3. Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
4. Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Article 24 - SO/RPF
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Article 25 - SO/RPF
1. Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
2. Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Article 26 - SO/SOC
1. Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
2. Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
3. Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Article 27 - RPF
1. Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
2. Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Article 28 - SO/SP
Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Article 29 - ScP/SO/RPF/SP
1. Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
2. In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
3. These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Article 30
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
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