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16 April 2011 - Updated 17 July 2013
From: Stephen M. Apatow
Founder, Director of Research & Development
Humanitarian Resource Institute
Humanitarian University Consortium Graduate Studies
Center for Medicine, Veterinary Medicine & Law
Phone: 203-668-0282
Email: s.m.apatow@humanitarian.net
Internet: www.humanitarian.net
CC: Human Rights Council and Treaties Division
Complaint Procedure
OHCHR-UNOG
1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Fax: (41 22) 917 90 11
E-mail: CP@ohchr.org
G20 Action Plan to Address the International Economic
Emergency
The appeal to the UN Commission on Human Rights - Security Council are
clear:
Efforts to address this
economic crisis through contingency discussions on the UN and
International
Bar Association level have failed, prompting the call for legal review
of available evidence by the UN Commission on
Human
Rights and Security Council. It is
critical
that emergency actions are coordinated to stabilize the global
financial
system and humanitarian emergency that continues to spiral out of
control.
This includes the development of legal tools to (1) assist restructure under bankruptcy protection for all
UN
member countries, (2) address market distortions associated with the
unregulated
global OTC derivatives market and shadow banking system, (3) debt
relief
proportional to resultant damage and (4) emergency humanitarian
assistance
for impacted populations. -- Financial Crimes
Referred
to UN Commission on Human Rights [1]
In the context of speculative trading of central bank emergency funds
and appeals by the UN [2,3,4] to address this variable that has
devastated every UN member country via our current oil/food
shock/crisis, the focus is clear:
Immediate emergency actions
to shut down speculative paper trading, with futures contracts for
delivery
only, as the new mandate for infrastructure critical commodities futures trading. As the direct
cause
of the humanitarian crisis that has destabilized Africa and the Middle
East, and inflicted severe pain on the grassroots level in every UN
member
country, it is essential that pricing of infrastructure critical
commodities
return to accurate supply demand metrics.
Immediate
emergency assistance is needed in proportion to the damage inflicted by
distorted valuations following the global market crash of 2008.
References:
1. Financial Crimes Referred to UN Commission on Human Rights -
Security Council: HRI:UNArts Humanitarian Intervention Initiative, 13
April 2011. Url: http://www.unarts.org/H-II/ref/4132011OHCHR.html
2. UN expert urges regulation of commodities
trading
to stop a speculative bubble: AFP, 8 March 2011.
Shortened Url: www.bit.ly/i1Dr8g
2. No
Solutions for Food Crisis without Human Rights: Office of the High
Commissioner for Human Rights. Url: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NEWSEVENTS/Pages/NoSolutionsFoodCrisis.aspx
3. Special Rapporteur on the right
to food: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Url: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/food/index.htm
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