Based on the continuing terrorist attacks on African-American houses of worship and widespread institutional support within the United States of America by some states for symbols of white supremacist violence, the volunteer human rights group Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) calls for global voices of condemnation against such racist terrorism.

We call for the world community,  international human rights groups, and the United Nations to actively condemn the recent spree of terrorist attacks on African-American churches resulting in murder and repeated arson, threats, and intimidation of African-Americans.  We call for the global voices and those of the United Nations to speak out against the injustice of those extremists seeking to intimidate African-Americans’ freedoms, dignity, and human rights, through the use of violence, threats, and institutional symbols of hatred, slavery, and white supremacist intimidation.

As these attacks and contempt for human rights and dignity of African-Americans must not be acceptable anywhere in the world, so this must also not be acceptable anywhere in the United States of America.

As the American people have spoken out many times for human rights of people around the world, we now call for global voices to also speak out for the human rights of African-Americans and others oppressed by extremists as well as institutional forces in the United States of America.

We call for the voices of American human rights activists, worldwide human rights activists, and the United Nations Human Rights Council to call for human rights action within the United States of America. As the U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has stated, “All victims of human rights abuses should be able to look to the Human Rights Council as a forum and a springboard for action.”  This must include victims within the United States of America, as well as the rest of the world.

Those individuals and leaders within the United States government, and especially the state and local governments protecting Confederate white supremacist symbols, need to understand that, in addition to the United States law to be upheld, there is international law and international standards, which we must also abide to as global citizens.

Our universal human rights and international laws do not just apply to Africa, Asia, Middle East, South and Central America, Australia, and Europe.  They also apply to North America, and certainly to the United States of America, as well as any other nation.

Our universal human rights apply equally to every person in every nation of the world.   The law is the law – for everyone in every nation.

We call for this support based on the United States of America as a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. It is the responsibility of all government agencies and individuals of the United States of America to abide by and to enforce its own laws as well as such global standards, including those rogue parts of the nation providing institutional promotion of white supremacy, in violation of national and international law. It is also the responsibility of the United Nations to use its offices to fulfill its charter in promoting and protecting human rights.

The continuing human rights violations against African-Americans in the United States of America, the failure of some members of the federal and state governments to apply the Civil Rights Act of 1968 regarding these violations, and a continuing state of intimidation against African-Americans by extremists, deserve the same attention of the world human human rights community and United Nations, as every other attack on our shared universal human rights.

We call upon the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to actively monitor this state of human rights violations in the United States of America, as part of its mission and mandate.  “The mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is to work for the protection of all human rights for all people; to help empower people to realize their rights; and to assist those responsible for upholding such rights in ensuring that they are implemented.” The mandate of the OHCHR includes the priorities of “preventing human rights violations, securing respect for all human rights, promoting international cooperation to protect human rights.”

With our human rights group based in the United States, we call for U.N. assistance in the establishment of a specific international monitoring of this human rights crisis in the United States of America, and to provide global support for action to resolve this human rights crisis.

We call for such global human rights monitoring based on the associated institutional intimidation, oppression, and failure to protect houses of worship from acts of terrorism.  We call upon the United Nations to monitor this human rights crisis, just as they would any other human rights crisis anywhere else in the world.

The position of Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) on our shared universal human rights is that these rights must be consistent for all, everywhere, all the time, around the world, including the United States of America. We urge the United States of America federal government to aggressively act to end these acts of white supremacist terrorism against African-Americans and African-American churches.

We make this request as a human rights volunteer activists, with a history of challenging such white supremacist extremist and terrorist behavior.  We are more than an “interested party;” we have been an active campaigner for such human rights, and we have received threats from white supremacist groups as a result of our support for human rights.

We call for the world community and the United Nations to clearly state that such continued oppression of human rights and such terrorist acts are unacceptable, and will be monitored by the United Nations to make recommendations for the OHCHR to the United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council.

We call for the all of the United States of America and the world community to be responsible for equality and liberty.

Founder,
Jeffrey Imm
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)