UN To Investigate US For Human Rights Abuses Against Native Americans…

(Guardian) — The UN is to conduct an investigation into the plight of US Native Americans, the first such mission in its history.

The human rights inquiry led by James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur on indigenous peoples, is scheduled to begin on Monday.

Many of the country’s estimated 2.7 million Native Americans live in federally recognised tribal areas which are plagued with unemployment, alcoholism, high suicide rates, incest and other social problems.

The UN mission is potentially contentious, with some US conservatives likely to object to international interference in domestic matters. Since being appointed as rapporteur in 2008, Anaya has focused on natives of Central and South America.

A UN statement said: “This will be the first mission to the US by an independent expert designated by the UN human rights council to report on the rights of the indigenous peoples.”  (hat tip Weasel Zippers)

 

 

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[Right Wing Theocrat]

And what's the bet they will recommend even more money be taken from taxpayer and shoveled at the natives.

The special rapporteur needs to shove off and interfere somewhere else

[jewboy]

"what we do to the jews ,who are foreigners-you did to the only real Americans there are-Adolf Hitler to American reporter who criticised his treatment of jews