Case 20-2016: United Nations (UN) & Secretary General Ban Ki-moon & Secretary General Antonio Guterres

MANIFESTO on Prostitution

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights, defender of the rights of global citizenship and of all beings of Mother Earth, exercising the cultural sovereignty that emanates from the Buddhist Peoples and Spiritual Communities, is aware of the situation of exploitation that millions of women are suffering throughout the world by means of prostitution;

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights has a universal ethical vocation, so that it calls upon the entire international community to become aware of the crimes against women that are being perpetrated by means of prostitution and the sexual trafficking networks;

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights addresses the United Nations (UN) from the perspective of Ethics and International Law in order to analyze the legal situation that the legalization of prostitution implies;

It is stated that the United Nations (UN) is violating one of the main precepts of Buddhist Law, because by supporting the legalization of prostitution, the precept of developing an adequate sexuality is violated, since it should be practiced healthy and respectfully, always based on the experience of love and the recognition of the dignity of the fellow beings.

It is stated that when interpreting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, prostitution would be prohibited by articles 4 and 5, where it is explicitly forbidden to subdue people to slavery, servitude, human trafficking, torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.

It is stated that prostitution is nothing more than a form of slavery, being also functional to human trafficking, organized crime and corruption, since low-income girls and women and other vulnerable groups such as immigrants would be co-opted to be exploited during their whole lives under conditions that could never resemble a decent job.

It is stated that the United Nations (UN) should eradicate prostitution and human trafficking, often associated with selling poor women and girls for sexual slavery, having the duty to comply with the vision of many international conventions and protocols approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations, so that the UN should respect the 1949 Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others, which affirms that prostitution and trafficking violate the dignity and value of the human being, and they endanger the well-being of the individual, family and community, reason why anyone who allows prostitution or exploits it should be punished even if there is consent of the person.

It is stated that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, in its Article 6, has the goal to struggle against trafficking in women and the exploitation of female prostitution.

It is stated that the 1993 UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women establishes that violence against women includes physical, sexual and psychological violence, sexual abuse, trafficking in women and forced prostitution.

It is stated that the Palermo Protocol of 2000 seeks to prevent and punish the trafficking in women and children, complementing the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.

It is stated that the legalization of prostitution would be a form of support for pedophilia and sexual abuse of minors, because in prostitution, female child prostitutes are often used by adult men, and also adult women prostitutes usually admit male children as clients, both cases constituting crimes against children that usually go totally unpunished.

It is stated that in the United States of America there is a plague of murders of prostitutes which has been left in total impunity, because they are considered as a social pariah and this makes that they are not adequately protected by security forces.

It is stated that legalization of prostitution is unconstitutional and betrays human rights treaties, because it reduces the intrinsic dignity of the human being to an object, merchandise or instrument of consumption, both in the case of women and girls as well as in the case of men and transsexuals who also belong to prostitution networks.

It is stated that the mass media convey an unfavorable image of women when showing them as an object or merchandise, thus disregarding the dignity and liberty of the human being.

It is stated that the Cambodian activist Somaly Mam of the Afesip organization, who has received international awards for rescuing dozens of women forced to prostitute themselves, is absolutely right in stating that legalizing prostitution goes against dignity and it means legalizing violence against women, since female trafficking could not be dissociated from the legalization of prostitution, because trafficking is a consequence of the supply and demand developed by the prostitution business.

It is stated that the Buddhist Tribunal agrees with Janice G. Raymond, director of Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW), who in March 2003 said that legalizing prostitution as a job does not mean empowering women but rather strengthens the sexual industry, so that from data of the Netherlands and Australia she argued multiple reasons against the legalization of prostitution, as it would be a gift for pimps and traffickers to become entrepreneurs, would promote sexual trafficking of poor foreign women, would expand and would not control sex industry, would increase illegal prostitution by not protecting anonymity, would promote child prostitution, would not protect women prostitutes from violence, would increase the demand for prostitution by encouraging men to buy women as sexual consumption products in environments of permissibility and acceptance, would not promote improvements in women’s health for being exposed to venereal transmission diseases, would not increase the women’s possibilities to choose, and it would go against the will of millions of women who do not want to legalize the sex industry.

It is stated that in 2001, in a scandalous way, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled the recognition of prostitution as an independent economic activity, which is a similar position to that of the Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands and its consideration that the prohibition of prostitution would conflict with the right to free choice of work, despite the fact that obviously the oppression and commercialization of women along with slavery do not constitute forms of dignified work.

It is stated that in 1998 the International Labor Organization (ILO), which is part of the United Nations (UN), suggested the international community that prostitution be legalized as a legitimate economic sector in order to collect taxes for the State coffers, even though the ILO itself recognizes the fact that prostitution is an alienated form of work where women work suffering, with remorse and forced, reason why sociologist Julio Godio – a specialist in labor issues and former member of the ILO – stated that it is an aberration that this UN dependent institution proposes to legalize prostitution as work, since it would be legalizing oppression despite the fact that the ILO has agreements against slavery and forced labor (Convention No. 29), rather than encouraging the fact that prostitutes free themselves from their exploiters.

It is stated that it is a historical shame that the United Nations (UN), through its 2012 report entitled “Sex Work and the Law in Asia and the Pacific”, recommends the legalization of prostitution in Asian-Pacific countries under the pretext that this would bring large amounts of social, legal and health benefits for prostitutes.

It is stated that the legalization of prostitution does nothing but expand the sexual market of women and increase human trafficking, as described by Seo-Young Choa Axel Dreher and Eric Neumayer in 2012 in their work called “Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking?”.

It is stated that Rachel Lloyd, director of Girls Educational and Mentoring Services, is right when saying that the solution to prostitution does not lie in the criminalization of victims neither in the legalization as sexual work, but is found in the criminal prosecution of traffickers and clients of prostitution, penalizing the demand but not its supply, as happens in the Nordic model, in addition to dealing with structural social problems such as poverty and ignorance to avoid the economic coercion suffered by the prostitutes, all of which produce a significant decline in the social malaise of prostitution.

It is stated that the way to reduce prostitution is not through its legalization but through the reduction of demand, creating an integral strategy against trafficking in persons and the use of women as merchandise, because the best way to fight against prostitution and sexual exploitation is the Nordic model of Sweden, Iceland and Norway, where buying sexual services is a crime at the same time that victims who exercise this resource are not criminalized, so the model is persecuting clients instead of the prostitutes.

It is stated that at the end of the 20th century the Swedish government banned and penalized the sexual purchase of women, stating that prostitution is an undesirable social phenomenon and an obstacle to the development of gender equality.

It is stated that prostitution constitutes an act of gender inequality and violence that affects more than 40 million people in the world, being one of the most atrocious violations of basic human rights that exists.

It is stated that the defenders of the legalization of prostitution often use the same rhetoric as the defenders of the legalization of abortion and the legalization of drugs, by saying in a utilitarian way that women have the right to do what they want with their bodies.

It is stated that in June 2017 the UN and the WHO have called on the international community to decriminalize the use of drugs and prostitution, not only ensuring that this would improve public health, but also even lying by saying that punitive laws have negative results.

It is stated that Secretary General Guterres of the UN is right to confirm that prostitution and sexual slavery thrive where laws are weak or nonexistent, as impunity and injustice are fueled by these crimes that would be much worse than drug trafficking.

It is stated that the majority of people who practice prostitution in their childhood have been victims of some form of rape or even incest, which is a vicious circle whereas prostitution leaves physical and psychic consequences that are lasting and almost as devastating as torture.

It is stated that the UN in 2017 has begun to try to decriminalize prostitution in the international community, calling it a sexual work despite the fact that women rescued from prostitution confirm that it is actually paid rape and not a job.

It is stated that the majority of victims who practice prostitution would like to abandon it, although they do not have the resources to be able to do so, and therefore they need humanitarian help and solidarity from all society.

The United Nations Organization (UNO) is required to immediately adopt righteous and appropriate policies that do not violate human rights, fundamental freedoms and the intrinsic dignity of the people, so that a zero tolerance approach that prevents and protect victims of prostitution should be urgently initiated, by judging clients or criminals and simultaneously directing economic resources to help prostitutes to be free of the exploitation and alienation that they suffer.

On August 23, 2018, as a way of contribution to a more peaceful, just, cultured and healthy world, the present Manifesto on Prostitution is expressed.

Always with reconciliation (maitri),

Master Maitreya Samyaksambuddha

President and Judge of the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights

Case No. 20-2016: United Nations (UN) & Secretary General Ban Ki-moon & Secretary General Antonio Guterres

PRONOUNCEMENT on philosopher Santiago Kovadloff

August 9th, 2018

In the first place, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights continues to denounce that the Argentine government of President Macri, with the support of the UN, tried to cover the economic crisis of the country through the debate on the legalization of abortion, even though this violates the Argentine National Constitution.

Secondly, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights confirms that in April 2018 the philosopher Santiago Kovadloff issued a statement in favor of the legalization and gratuity of abortion, stating to be committed to individual rights and gender equality, despite the fact that abortion obviously violates the fundamental right to life.

Thirdly, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights is again pronounced on the communiqué signed by the philosopher Santiago Kovadloff, in which is reaffirmed the lie that illegal abortions are the leading cause of maternal mortality in Argentina, which constitutes a total misrepresentation of scientific data in order to try to validate the legalization of abortion.

Fourth, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights decides once again that this homicidal act of abortion constitutes infanticide, although it is recommended that it not be addressed through criminal justice but through restorative justice, so that funds must be inverted in an adequate way for prevention by means of education.

Fifth, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights denounces that what was affirmed by the philosopher Santiago Kovadloff is totally false when he stated that the beginning of human existence is debatable and that it depends on beliefs, maliciously ignoring that biological sciences have determined that human life begins from conception.

Sixth, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights criticizes as a perverse act the fact that the philosopher Santiago Kovadloff associates the legalization of abortion with societies that hold the best standards of human rights, economic development and personal well-being, by adapting the laws to the social reality of the XXI century.

Seventh, the Buddhist Tribunal Human Rights affirms that this immoral position of Kovadloff has motivations that are not genuine, since it is recalled that on January 22, 2006 this philosopher published a great text entitled “When having daughters is a bad business” (“Cuando tener hijas es un mal negocio”, in Spanish) where he courageously claimed that the economic and technological progress of China and India is presented along with a field of delay and horror scenario which would be the millions of abortions of female embryos that occur in both countries, which was described by Kovadloff as a retrograde and criminal catastrophe.

Eighth, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights agrees with the original position of the philosopher Santiago Kovadloff in 2006 with regard to abortion, considering it as a genocidal procedure and a variant of programmed extermination of life, consolidating human life as a means and diluting it as an end.

In ninth place, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights asks the philosopher Santiago Kovadloff to recover his decency and ethical integrity, to return to perceive the intrinsic value of life, instead of allowing his thinking to be distorted in order to serve the political and economic powers in force, since nobody who has a righteous thinking would qualify a procedure as genocidal and then, a decade after, beginning to publicly defend it as a XXI century human right.

Each of these nine points demonstrate once again that the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights will continue to denounce the crimes against humanity committed against unborn children around the world, requiring that thinkers and philosophers maintain ethical positions of righteousness and integrity.

Unlike those who are mere philosophers, the Buddhist Law is a movement led by spiritual prophets whose ethical preaching is totally original and almost unprecedented, since its socially engaged message is backed by the Law or Purpose (Dharma) of life. Thus, the Maitriyana calls upon to create a civilization ordered by the pillars of world peace, social justice, advanced education and ecological health. This implies that the Buddhist Law’s way to proceed implies being a spokesman for a better world, although this may be considered by the status quo as an arrogant, provocative, dangerous or delusional action. Therefore, the true word falls on corrupt and authoritarian societies as a hurricane sweeping everything away, denouncing the political, economic and cultural powers that violate the dharmic nature or intrinsic dignity of life through the cult of egoism, dualism and consumerism. Obviously, although it may suffer resistance or disqualification, the Maitriyana is a messenger and standard of a better world, working with audacity in the here and now to ensure or provoke such spiritual advent. While this may lead to bewilderment in the ordinary thought, the Buddhist Law states that the civilization of world peace, social justice, advanced education and ecological health should prevail so that humanity can survive. Instead, if humanity follows the path led by the rich and powerful ones, without responding to the call of self-criticism and repentance, then it will be condemned to sink into nonsense and decadence, establishing an imminent self-destruction and global catastrophe of poverty, injustice, ignorance and pollution. Therefore, no one can intimidate the prophets of Maitriyana, which clearly and eloquently are striking anyone who is unable to sustain his or her life in the search and fulfillment of Truth and Love. Thus, the Buddhist Law does not hide its challenge to try to save the contemporary world that it is found on the edge of the abyss, even struggling against those thinkers and philosophers who want to maintain the world on the pathway to extinction.

Always with spirit of reconciliation (maitri),

Master Maitreya Samyaksambuddha

Judge and President of the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights

Case n° 20/2016: United Nations (UN) & Secretary General Ban Ki-moon & Secretary General Antonio Guterres

Official Statement on UN Human Rights Council

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights, on June 20, 2018, decides to reaffirm again that the Buddhist Spirituality does not endorse the illegal and immoral behavior of the UN Human Rights Council, which during the last ten years has been dedicated to cover up states that violate human rights, and that have committed the worst international crimes, such as Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, Crimes against Humanity and Crimes against Peace.

As a result, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights provides ethical support for the decision of the US government to withdraw and abandon its membership within the UN Human Rights Council. In this sense, the Tribunal agrees with the US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, who criticized the hypocrisy of the organization, stating that the Human Rights Council has been a protector of human rights violators and a sink of political partiality, letting the most inhuman regimes to escape scrutiny by maintaining a seat within the Human Rights Council.

This can be demonstrated not only by the fact that many members of the UN Human Rights Council lack respect for the most basic human rights, as is the case with China, Cuba and the Democratic Republic of Congo, but it is also demonstrated the mockery and covering up that the Human Rights Council has carried out with regards to crimes against humanity committed by its member state Venezuela. In fact, at the end of 2017, the States of Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay and Peru, protested against the UN Human Rights Council, by publicly demanding the expulsion of Venezuela as a member of the Council, because this State is a dictatorship that does not meet the requirements and obligations to be a member of the Human Rights Council, since it has broken the democratic order and has also seriously violated the human rights of its own people.

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights, since it is devoid of prejudices and ideologies, agrees with the US government in its criticism of the UN Human Rights Council, although it is simultaneously made clear the fact that the USA has long time ago ceased to be a leading country in the defense of human rights.

Always with spirit of reconciliation (maitri),

H.E. Master Maitreya Samyaksambuddha

President and Spiritual Judge of the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights

Case n° 20/2016: United Nations (UN) & Secretary General Ban Ki-moon & Secretary General Antonio Guterres

Legal Requirement on U.N. Conference on Disarmament

June 20, 2018

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights legally requires the Conference on Disarmament sponsored by the United Nations Organization to immediately cancel the presidency of this conference at the hands of the government of Syria, since it would imply an endorsement of the human rights violations committed by this government that recently would have carried out chemical weapons attacks on civilian populations in its country, which constitutes crimes against humanity and war crimes.

This requirement to revoke the presidency of Syria in the Conference on Disarmament of May 2018 arises from the fact that the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad’s would recently carried out State Terrorism using chemical weapons prohibited by International Law, which produced the subsequent bombing from USA, United Kingdom and France against Syria, which obviously is also a violation of International Law and the human right to peace.

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights agrees with Hillel Neuer, director of the UN Watch organization, who affirmed that the fact that the government of Syria presides over a UN conference on disarmament of chemical and nuclear weapons is something similar to putting a serial sexual abuser in charge of a women’s shelter, because Bashar al-Assad would be the most terrible violator of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction and the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction. In this sense, it is perceived that putting the government of Syria in the presidency of the UN conference on disarmament is a supreme disrespect to the hundreds of innocent victims of the Syrian regime, mostly women and children, destroying once again all kinds of ethical credibility of the UN.

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights considers that the democratic governments of the world should withdraw and refrain from participating in this immoral conference organized by the UN that is an offense against world peace. In addition, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights confirms that the fact that Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the UN, has not intervened to annul the presidency of Syria in the UN Conference on Disarmament demonstrates the Secretary General’s payment of favors for those countries which chose him for the office, as is the case of the Russian government allied with Syria. Even in 2013, the former UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, repudiated the election of Syria as a member of the UNESCO Human Rights Committee, which shows that there are historical precedents for a UN Secretary-General to act as a moral voice when certain UN committees make decisions contrary to the ethical reputation of the organization, especially when illegal governments use their participation in the UN as political legitimation to continue perpetrating crimes against humanity.

Always with spirit of reconciliation (maitri),

H.E. Master Maitreya Samyaksambuddha

President of the International Buddhist Ethics Committee & Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights

Case No. 20/2016: United Nations Organization (ONU) & Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

Proclamation on UN Corruption

March 8th, 2018

The International Buddhist Ethics Committee and Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights,

Recalling that United Nations (UN), led by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, was condemned by the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights for the serious charges of Genocide, Crimes against Humanity, War Crimes, Corruption, Violation International Human Rights Law, and High Crimes against Peace;

Considering that many of the Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes committed by the United Nations (UN) include exploitations, human trafficking and systematic and widespread sexual abuses, which have continued during 2017 when 40 new cases were reported;

Concerned enormously by the cases of sexual abuses undermining the foundational values and principles of the international body;

Deploring that the United Nations‘ official, the lawyer Alfred de Zayas, who has ties with the Cuban government, scandalously stated that in Venezuela there is no humanitarian crisis and that this idea would be imposed by the USA in order to overthrow Maduro’s regime, ignoring that Venezuela is faced with one of the worst catastrophes of refugees in the world, being a crisis as strong as those in Syria and Myanmar;

Analyzing that in 2006 the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso expressed critically that in order to stop poverty and armed conflicts, there would be an end of the corruption and antidemocracy existing at the highest levels of the United Nations (UN), which would be an international institution that would yield to the arrangements of the great nuclear superpowers, which usually control other nations through the UN Security Council;

Taking into consideration that Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, acknowledged that the UN has not done enough early to avoid the horrors that are happening in Burundi, Congo, Myanmar, Syria and Yemen, which would have become prolific slaughterhouses of human beings;

Examining that Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, accused the permanent members of the UN Security Council of being responsible for so much suffering in the world;

• Absolute solidarity is expressed to the thousands of victims who have been killed and raped by the military and civilian members of the UN.
• It is declared that crimes against humanity committed by the UN are not outside International Law, so that impunity must be immediately resolved.
• UN is condemned for committing High Violations of the Rights of children and women, as it has continued to commit torture and physical and psychical harm to hundreds of the most defenseless people in the world.
• It is confirmed that the UN not only continues to hold corrupt officials, but it is also a structurally tyrannical and undemocratic system that allows a handful of governments to control the fate of the rest of humanity.
• It is stated that the UN cannot and must not behave like a non-governmental organization, since it has vast political and economic resources, so it should not only present reports of human rights violations, but should also immediately judge genocides by using all the tools of International Law in order to create a world of peace, justice, education and ecology for all.
• It is stated that as long as the UN does not fulfill its function, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights will have more and more humanitarian importance in the world.
• The teachings of Siddhartha Gautama are recalled as well as the Maitriyana Spirituality, whose compassionate wisdom has the ability to save humanity through supreme ethical leadership.

Written two thousand six hundred years after the founding and independence of the Great Buddhist Nation.

President and Judge: H.E. Master Maitreya Samyaksambuddha

Case No. 20/2016: United Nations (UN) & Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

Act on PERMANENT OBSERVER MISSION OF THE HOLY SEE TO THE UNITED NATIONS (UN)

On December 05, 2017, an Act of International Repudiation is written regarding the affirmations made by His Excellency Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See in the United Nations (UN) and in the Organization of American States, who on October 30, 2017 has publicly endorsed the actions of the Peacekeeping operations of the UN, despite the fact that this organization has been sentenced by the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights for the crimes of GENOCIDE, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, WAR CRIMES, CORRUPTION, VIOLATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW AND HIGH CRIMES AGAINST WORLD PEACE.

The Holy See has stated that it believes in the central role of the UN for the maintenance of international security and peace, even alleging that the UN Peacekeeping operations are an indispensable instrument and that it has contributed to the resolution of many armed conflicts. The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights confirms once again that the Holy See is making complicit silence in the face of the most terrible violations of human rights, since it has been shown that UN officials have violated the ideals and principles of the organization, by systematically and widespreadly carrying out a framework of impunity for sexual abuse, human trafficking and sexual slavery of women and children, mass killings of civilians, sanctions or genocidal blockades, militarism and false humanitarianism.

The Holy See has stated that it emphasizes the protection of civilians on the part of the Peacekeeping operations of the UN, despite the fact that there is ample evidence that this organization has exterminated the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians. The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights confirms that the Holy See does not use its multimillionaire resources in the recognition and fight against the great evils of the world, nor does it carry out a diplomacy of prevention, mediation and reconciliation, but rather most of the times it becomes an ally of the powers in place, supporting the status quo even when genocides and crimes against humanity are committed such as those carried out by UN Peacekeeping forces. True Peace will never emerge from any kind of army, neither from corrupt politicians nor from pedophile religious ones, since True Peace emerges from the struggle against greed, hatred and deceit. In short, True Peace emerges from humanitarianism, love and Truth. Only through a Path of righteousness the world’s evils, such as war, injustice, ignorance and pollution, can be eradicated. This requires the world leaders, whether political or religious, not to support and not to contribute to international crimes, not being part of the evil to which they should fight. In this sense, instead of supporting the Peacekeeping forces of UN, the Holy See should request that this organization be brought before international justice, being duly investigated and condemned for the serious crimes it has committed against hundreds of thousands of defenseless people, mostly children, as has happened in Iraq, Haiti and Africa. As long as there is impunity in human rights violations committed by the rich and powerful, this world will be condemned to the Apocalypse. If the Holy See decides to ignore the Path of self-sacrifice for the Truth, Love and Justice developed by Master Jesus, this will have ethical and spiritual consequences that will remain in the memory of the entire humankind for thousands of years.

Always with a spirit of reconciliation (maitri),

Master Maitreya Samyaksambuddha

President and Judge of the International Buddhist Ethics Committee and Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights

Case 20-2016: ONU & Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

Resolution on Human Rights Watch

Thursday 16 February, 2017

The International Buddhist Ethics Committee & Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights,

Assuming the ethical and juridical principles of Buddhist Law, the International Human Rights Law and fundamental freedoms established by international instruments, such as the Buddhist legal code (vinaya) adopted by the spiritual commune (Sangha) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the international community;

Considering that on February 13, 2017 Human Rights Watch issued a report called “Pakistan Coercion, UN Complicity: The Mass Forced Return of Afghan Refugees,” which demonstrated the Complicity and promotion of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) with the campaign of Pakistani government abuses and coercion that forcibly displaced around 600,000 Afghans since July 2016, including 365,000 registered refugees, violating their political, economic, cultural and environmental rights, and especially their human right to peace;

Aware that on January 21, 2017 the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights judged the UN and its Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for Crimes against humanity and also for High Crimes against peace, which demonstrates the superior ethics of the Buddhist People and its true mission to save the world;

Affirming that the Judgment to UN carried out by the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights was the result of the analysis of a series of evidences among which was found “UN Complicity in Crimes against Humanity in Asia”, which implies that the report of Human Rights Watch is an indirect endorsement of the ethical judgment of the Buddhist Tribunal;

Deeply concerned by testimonies coming from Pakistan, where hundreds of thousands of refugees are systematically and widespreadly receiving abuses of their human rights, such as police threats, extortion, violence, arbitrary detentions, illegal searches, house demolitions, discrimination and denial of education to Afghan children, which is a situation that forces hundreds of thousands of Afghans refugees to return to a war zone from which they had fled and where their lives are surely to be in great danger, being one of the largest forced relocations in history;

Reaffirming that the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) establishes that deportation or forcible transfer of populations constitutes a crime against humanity;

Deploring that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) not only has not publicly condemned this international crime against humanity, but it has promoted it by increasing economic assistance for every Afghan who returns, evidencing clear complicity and promotion of this crime of massive forced transfer of people, even creating a fictional story that these transfers are really voluntary returns;

Taking into account that the European Union, an inter-state community which in recent years received the Nobel Peace Prize, has not only created a plan for the massive deportation of immigrants and refugees from Syria, which is a crime against humanity; but also the European Union is responsible for rejecting thousands of Afghan refugees seeking asylum, which violates International Law;

Examining that the UN Complicity with Pakistan’s forced relocations and with the massive deportation of the European Union replicate the illegal and xenophobic discourse of President Trump of the United States of America, causing a historical damage to the instruments of Human Rights;

Bearing in mind that xenophobia, aggressive nationalism and apartheid constitute violations of International Law, so that those presidents who promote discrimination and racism should be judged, especially if they are presidents of war superpowers or members of the UN Security Council, because they should be an ethical and humanitarian example for the rest of the international community;

Showing dismay at the fact that this fascist discourse is spreading all over the world, endangering the healthy and adequate existence of humanity;

1. Affirms that the UN should follow the ethical and humanitarian example of the Buddhist People, which is the true defender of World Peace, Social Justice, Free Education and Environmental Health.
2. Calls on the UN to immediately stop its complicity with Pakistan’s human rights violations against hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees, not only having the duty to protect one million Afghan refugees still residing in Pakistan but also it must protect lives of those 600,000 refugees who have already been illegally expelled.
3. It solemnly states that every refugee has the supreme human right to live in peace and in the absence of violence or war.
4. Expresses hope that both Pakistan and the European Union cease their conduct of massive deportations of refugees, regaining respect for the international Human Rights instruments, as well as showing solidarity and compassion towards one of the world’s poorest and most oppressed nations.
5. Deplores any governmental measure promoting forced relocations and massive deportations as illegal.
6. Declares that the UN must immediately carry out a process of democratic reform that provides peace and justice, combating corruption, impunity and authoritarianism within this international organization.
7. It calls on all members of the international community to follow the Path of Law and Righteousness by developing the compassionate wisdom as an antidote to the world evils of greed, hatred and deceit.
8. Encourages non-governmental organizations to follow the ethical example of the Buddhist People and to request that the UN cease to commit human rights violations.

Best regards, with a reconciling spirit.

Master Maitreya

President and Spiritual Judge of the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights

Case NO. 20/2016: United Nations (UN) & Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

ETHICAL NOTICE TO ANTONIO GUTERRES (UN SECRETARY-GENERAL)

Dear,

By means of the present Notice, on January 27, 2017, the International Buddhist Ethics Committee notifies you that in a trial held during December 2016 the UN was found “Responsible” for the serious crimes of GENOCIDE, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, WAR CRIMES, CORRUPTION AND VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW, all of which are interpreted as HIGH CRIMES AGAINST WORLD PEACE. This Ethical Sentence has been directed against the UN and the current former Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, as a consequence that under his command international crimes were committed while continuing to cover up crimes of the past, which completely violates human rights, fundamental freedoms and ethical values. As a new UN Secretary-General has recently assumed, he is asked to investigate said organization for the international crimes denounced and judged by the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights. In order to undertake such a task an ad hoc international tribunal could be set up. In this regard, the new Secretary-General of the UN, Mr. Guterres, is requested to remove immunity from all officials and military forces who have committed genocidal acts, war crimes and crimes against humanity, allowing them to be tried by local or international courts for their systematic and widespread violations. Thus, the current Secretary General of the UN is also requested to cancel the Nobel Peace Prizes that have received in the past both the Peacekeepers and the UN itself. Any organization or country that commits genocidal acts cannot continue to bear a distinction that gives it ethical authority in matter of peace and human rights. In case of silence or failure to respond adequately to these requests, Mr Guterres will be carrying out an act of Complicity with the violation of human rights by the UN and former Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Obviously, the annulment of the Nobel Peace Prize is also the responsibility of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, so it will also have ethical and legal consequences at the international level any omission by this organization against the violations and criminal acts carried out by those that have been awarded by said organization.

Frankly, it is an international shame that the UN, with its millions of dollars in budgets, does absolutely nothing for International Justice, whereas the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights performs a supreme work without receiving any kind of economic recourse. At the same time, it is also a shame that former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who was sentenced by the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights, has accused world leaders of having blood in their hands when actually the UN has participated in several genocides (in some as an accomplice and in others as an author). However, if this is true and several international leaders have their hands full of blood as a result of mass killings, then the former Secretary-General had and has the legal duty to denounce criminals to justice, even if they are heads of State. The former Secretary-General accused the Syrian president of killing civilians in his internal war, ignoring the fact that the UN has produced even greater genocide in Iraq by means of  blocking or siege techniques against the civilian population, which killed more than half a million children. The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights strongly criticizes this level of hypocrisy on the part of an official who withdraws from office as if he had no Responsibility in the massacres of the superpowers. The position of Secretary-General of the UN is a position of unimaginable power, not a symbolic post. The military attacks on humanitarian workers are repugnant, savage and coward, but they are war crimes that must be denounced before international justice, and not simply being criticized in the last speech before leaving an office. Actually, true cowardice is not that of the aggressor or attacker, but that of the one who covers up a crime. The true heroes of the world are those who unveil the Truth, even though they will later be persecuted and punished, just as the UN has done immorally against anyone who denounced the traumatic Truth of human rights violations committed by the organization. In case the former UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, has accurate knowledge that there are representatives of governments that have ignored, facilitated, financed, participated or planned and executed atrocities inflicted on civilians, then he has the ethical and legal duty to denounce these facts before Justice, otherwise he will be Responsible for Complicity with human rights violations, specifically war crimes. This obscurity and cynicism is the great danger of international politics, and it is a matter that the new UN Secretary-General has the duty to solve urgently, building a world based on Truth and not on lies. There is an urgent need to create a new system of planetary civilization based on fundamental freedoms and the vision of participatory democracy, rather than isolating civil society from decision-making, which is something that always leads to corruption, impunity and atrocities. Although the Buddhist Peoples are independent communities, they are always at the disposal of creating a better world, because the Path of Spirituality is the ultimate protection of the rights of human and non-human beings. This obviously requires an open-minded and reformist attitude, respecting the rule of Law and maintaining fair criticism of the evils of the world, such as fundamentalism, racism, nationalism, colonialism, authoritarianism, populism and terrorism.

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights has shown that the UN does not serve the interests of the global community but rather the interests of the military and economic superpowers, having no moral authority over humanity, unlike the spiritual masters who have correctly embodied the voice of ethical consciousness for two thousand six hundred years. The Free and Enlightened Beings (Arhats-Bodhisattvas) of history have shown an unswerving vocation for the protection of the poor and oppressed, while government officials – especially of the UN – have only shown an insatiable search for power and money. Following this spirit of sincere friendship toward all sentient beings, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights exercises its responsibility in the world as a genuine voice of ethical consciousness of humanity and Mother Earth (Pachamama). The prophetic voice of the spiritual masters clearly states that if world is not transformed by means of the evanescence of egoism, dualism and consumerism, then there will be no world but only chaos.

The Purpose (Dharma) of the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights is solidary and humanitarian, wise and compassionate, so that it will never be an accomplice of Genocides, ethnic cleansings and crimes against humanity, much less when such crimes are carried out in the name of the Good, Liberty and Democracy, such as the United Nations has done. Righteousness and True Humanitarianism are the key to create a civilization of peace, justice, knowledge and ecology, so we give ourselves to the defense of this Path of Universal Ethics.

Best regards, with a reconciling spirit,

Master Maitreya Samyaksambuddha

President and Spiritual Guide of the International Buddhist Ethics Committee (IBEC) & Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights (BTHR)