Human Rights and US Sanctions

sudani · Dec 9, 2013

Last November President Barack Obama said he would extend the 15-year-old economic sanctions against Sudan, explaining that the actions of the Sudanese government that initially led to the measures still threatens U.S. security.
In a letter sent to leaders in both houses of Congress, Obama said the U.S. government will continue to enforce sanctions first put in place during the Clinton administration, after the Sudanese government took actions that led the former president to declare a national emergency.
The White House is making a mistake by renewing the completely inexcusable unilateral sanctions imposed against Sudan since 1993.
We believe that the Obama administration is mistaken when it renews the economic sanctions thinking that it will punish the government and forgetting that those who pay the price for those sanctions are Sudanese citizens.
The continued airplane crashes which claim the lives of thousands are a consequence of the economic sanctions.
There is a big difference between the Obama administration dominated by the Zionist lobby and the ordinary American citizen, who built a giant civilisation based on democracy and human rights.
However, the Obama administration should correct this egregious policy responsible for economic injustice against the innocent citizens of Sudan.
In yesterdayâs issue we published an Op-Ed on human rights by the U.S. Charge Dâ Affaires in Khartoum, Ambassador Joseph Stafford, which reads:
International Human Rights Day, which we celebrate each December 10, commemorates the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. In adopting the UDHR, the United States and governments around the world recognized that human beings, by virtue of their birth, are endowed with certain inalienable rights, and that these serve as âthe foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.â We look to the Universal Declaration both as a reminder of values and as a guide for action.â
According to the release published by the Obama administration, they will continue the hard work of making human rights a reality for every person, no matter who they are or where they live.
Let us hope that the Obama administration translates those words into actions and lifts the unjustifiable sanctions against the Sudanese people.

Grokmaster · Dec 9, 2013

Do humans also have the right to not be subjected to genocide by muslim savages, as is the common practice in the Sudan, with the full knowledge of the Sudanese government?

mutmekep · Dec 9, 2013

Why you care so much about the US? you still get to trade with the rest +200 countries .

waltky · Apr 7, 2016

Without oil and food, the unstable regime may take extreme steps...

Oil Sanctions Risk Pushing North Korea Over the Edge
April 6, 2016 - A new round of United Nations sanctions on North Korea has a lot of loopholes, and China is only enforcing those that hit at Pyongyang's weapons-making capabilities.

The rogue nation, that is once again making nuclear threats, is using its hostage population as a human shield in order to get Chinese oil and food. In January, Pyongyang conducted its forth nuclear test. In February, it launched a long-range rocket. In early March, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un reportedly ordered the military to deploy the countrys nuclear warheads on standby. Its not the first timenor will it be the lastbut this colorfully unstable dictatorship will eventually crack, and the price of that could very well be devastatingly nuclear.

Now, in the face of tough new sanctions by the U.N. and ongoing joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises, North Korea is saying it will continue to pursue its nuclear and ballistic missile program in an act of defiance. And Pyongyang says there is no longer any possibility for talks. The new U.N. sanctions target North Koreas shipping network, allowing for searches of vessels for cargo that could be intended for Pyongyangs weapons program. But its tough to get around the economic relationship between China and North Korea. No sanctions can work if China doesnt play ball. China, after all, is the central point here: Some 90 percent of all North Korean trade flows to or through China.

Most mineral trade with North Korea is banned, because its been used to fund the countrys nuclear program. But food and oil gets through because Beijing ostensibly believes that such crippling sanctions would harm the innocent population and lead to dangerous internal destabilizationwhich no one wants when a country has its finger on the red button.

The mining sector is being hit hard, but the new sanctions also reveal some interesting connections in the supply chain. According to regulatory disclosures cited by Reuters, there are more than 12 U.S.-listed companies with links to North Korean gold in their supply chains. And it counts even if minerals come through a third-country supplier. The chain has to be followed to its end source. The new sanctions mean that a lot of suppliers face being blacklisted because U.S. companies cannot risk the regulatory fines.

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Oil steady as Iraqi exports up, offsetting U.S. inventories drop
Thu Apr 7, 2016 - Oil steadied at around $40 per barrel on Thursday as a surprise fall in U.S. inventories the previous day was offset by an increase in exports from Iraq, underlining global oversupply.

Brent futures were at $39.89 at 0757 GMT, up 5 cents from the last close and about 8 percent above lows reached earlier this week. U.S. crude futures were at $37.80 per barrel, also up 5 cents from their last close. Oil exports from Iraq's southern ports have risen to an average of 3.494 million barrels per day (bpd) in April, an official from the state-run South Oil Company said on Thursday. This was above the 3.286 million bpd average for March.

U.S. crude inventories fell 4.9 million barrels in the week to April 1, compared with analysts' expectations for an increase of 3.2 million barrels, according to data from the Energy Information Administration on Wednesday. "We are in the aftermath of yesterday's (EIA) data, but if you zoom out there's still oversupply and record inventories," said Hans van Cleef, senior energy economist at ABN Amro in Amsterdam. "Production numbers from places like Iran and Iraq are in focus with people looking to see how it translates into the overall supply picture."

In Europe, North Sea oil field maintenance expected next month lent support to Brent futures, which are priced off North Sea supplies. The over 4 percent slide in the dollar .DXY since the beginning of the year is also supporting oil, traders said, as it makes imports of dollar-denominated fuels cheaper for countries using other currencies, boosting demand. A planned meeting of major oil producers on April 17 to freeze output around current levels, which in most cases remains at or near record highs, would do little to reduce an overhang in production with at least 1 million barrels of crude pumped every day in excess of demand.

Goldman Sachs (GS.N) said it was "less willing to believe in a sustained OPEC production freeze or cut" and instead expected OPEC's production to rise by 600,000 barrels per day (bpd) this year and by 500,000 bpd in 2017. As a result of this, and also production data from the United States, Goldman said it was "somewhere between in line and modestly bearish for prices ... (and that) $35 per barrel WTI is not too high and not too low but just right."

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil-idUSKCN0X4029
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waltky · Jul 7, 2016

Sanctions gettin' personal...

Kim Jong Un slapped with sanctions for human rights violations by Obama government
Thursday 7th July, 2016 | WASHINGTON, U.S. U.S. Obama administration reportedly announced that it will impose sanctions on North Koreas Kim Jong Un for human rights abuse.

According to reports, this is the first time that Kim Jong Un has been singled out personally, in the many sanctions slapped on the country, and placed on the blacklist for human rights abusers along with 10 other officials. U.S. Treasury Department officials reportedly said that the secretive leader was ultimately responsible for what they touted as North Korea's notorious abuses of human rights. It was added that the sanctions are a move within an escalating campaign to attack the regimes finances to retaliate against North Koreas nuclear-weapon and ballistic-missiles tests. The unusual step was also taken due to reports of forced labor camps and the torture and executions of dissidents in the country.

Acting Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Adam J. Szubin reportedly said that, Under Kim Jong Un, North Korea continues to inflict intolerable cruelty and hardship on millions of its own people, including extrajudicial killings, forced labour, and torture. Reports added that the blacklist also reportedly names five other official organisations involved in monitoring ordinary North Koreans and keeping an estimated 80,000 to 120,000 people in camps as political prisoners. Officially, the sanctions do not hold much momentum and reportedly allows freezing of any assets that North Korea may have in the U.S., and bar interactions between North Koreans and Americans - both of which are limited or even non-existent. Although the actions were mandated as part of a February 2016 law that required the reporting of human rights violations in North Korea and imposing of sanctions, the Obama administration reportedly revealed that they had long planned to take more aggressive action.

Reports state that the sanctions will have global financial implications for some of the individuals. An administration official reportedly said, The fact they are being named might not affect lives today But in a future scenario in which the political situation in the DPRK [North Korea] is different, being on this blacklist could have a considerable impact on any prospects these people have. And I think they know it. Kim Jong Un joins other authoritarian leaders on the blacklist for horrific conditions in their countries, including Bashar al-Assad of Syria, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe.

http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/...r-human-rights-violations-by-obama-government
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