Journos Need Human Rights Training

A useful article by Paula Gerber.

Mainstream journalists obviously need to be educated about human rights if they have missed out on this in 20 years of schooling  - however they really  urgently need to be educated in how to find a skerrick of decency to stand up for human rights by honest and humane REPORTAGE.

We are all familiar with what is called the Natural Law  adhered to by decent people and enunciated by major international conventions that enshrine decent humane values but which are grossly violated by Australia and the war criminal US Alliance of which it is a slavish part , with this being egregiously IGNORED by Mainstream presstitutes e.g. 

1. The UN Charter prohibits invasion and devastation of other countries except in self-defence or with UNSC approval ( Britain  has invaded most countries; the US has invaded 70 countries; democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel has invaded 12; Australia as a UK or US lackey has invaded 24).

2. Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection oif Civlian Persons in Time of War demand that an Occupier must provide life-sustaininng food and medical requisites to the conquered  Subjects "to the fullest extent of the means available  to it" (under-5 infant deaths in war-and sanctions-devastated Iraq and war-devastated Afghanistan now total 2.0 million and 3.0 million, respectively  , 90% avoidable and associated with gross violation fo the Geneva Convention by the US Alliance and Australia).

3. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (about 46 years after the 1967 Aparthgeid Israeli conquest of all of Palestine, the Australia- and Western-backed, invasion-, occupation- , theft- , genocide-, lying- and race-based Apartheid State of Israel still comprehensively violates ALL basic human rights of the Indigenous Occupied Palestinian People as set out in the 30 Articles of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (see: http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html    and Gideon Polya,  ."Apartheid Israel Excludes Occupied Palestinians From All Provisions Of  The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights", Countercurrents, 20 May 2012: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya200512.htm ) .

4. The Refugee Convention demands that all signatories  welcome and care for refugees as legitimate arrivals (Lib-Lab Australia subjects ALL refugee arrivals by boat   to indefinite, highly abusive imprisonment in remote malarial concentration camps).

5. The Rights of the Child Convention is grossly violated by Australia as set out in examples 1-4 above.

6. The Right to Life of BORN people is grossly violated by Australia as set out in examples 1-4 above.

7. Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention states: “In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: a) Killing members of the group; b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group” (this is grossly violated by the major Euopean  powers, the UK, the US, Apartheid Israel and Australia. Indeed not jjust  run-of-the-mill Mainstream media jourmalists but the recently launched 2-volume “The Cambridge History Of Australia” ignores  30 genocidal atocities in which Australia has been complicit (see Gideon Polya, ” Review: “The Cambridge History Of Australia” ignores Australian Involvement In 30 Genocides”, Countercurrents, 14 October 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya141013.htm ).

Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity - decent people are obliged to speak out, the more so when their own family members have been subject to genocide (as was  mine) . Yet my attempts to do so have been egregiously blocked and censored within Neocon American- and Zionsit Imperialist-subverted and -perverted, "look the other way" Australian media, most notoriously by the taxpayer-funded ABCLate Night Live and the  taxpayer-funded, universities -backed web magazine The Conversation. .

For details of media-derived  censorship of reportage of Human  Rights abuses  by the global Murdoch media empire, Australian Fairfax media, the Australian ABC, the UK BBC,  and the Australian universities-backed web magazine The Conversation in Neocon American- and Zionist Imperialist-perverted and subverted Murdochracy, Lobbyocracy and Corporatocracy Australia and elsewhere in the West see “Boycott Murdoch media”: https://sites.google.com/site/boycottmurdochmedia/  ; “Censorship by the BBC”: https://sites.google.com/site/censorshipbythebbc/  ; “Censorship by The Conversation”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/censorship-by  ; “Mainstream media censorship”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/home  ; “Mainstream media lying”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammedialying/  ; “Censorship by The Age”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/censorship-by-the-age ; “Censorship by ABC Late Night Live”: https://sites.google.com/site/censorshipbyabclatenightlive/  , "Censorship by ABC Saturday Extra": https://sites.google.com/site/censorshipbyabclatenightlive/censorship-by-abc-sat and “ABC fact-checking unit & incorrect reportage by the ABC (Australia’s BBC)”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/abc-fact-checking-unit .

Seymour Hersh, Sherwood Ross, Paul Craig Roberts:

“We lie about everything. Lying has become the staple.”

http://rinf.com/alt-news/breaking-news/mainstream-journalists-expose-911-hoax-4/84781/