UN experts call for halt in Dakota Access pipeline and ‘excessive force’ against protesters
![A protest against the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, North Dakota, November 15, 2016 [Image: Reuters/Stephanie Keith].](https://voxpoliticalonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/161117-Dakota-pipeline-protest-Reuters-Stephanie-Keith.jpg)
A protest against the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, North Dakota, November 15, 2016 [Image: Reuters/Stephanie Keith].
As a citizen of the UK, which the UN has recently condemned over systematic violations of the human rights of people with disabilities, it will be interesting to see how the US authorities react.
Will they respect the advice of the international organisation which is based in New York?
Or will they ignore it and carry on doing whatever they like, no matter who gets hurt – as the Conservative Government in the UK has done?
United Nations experts have called for a halt in construction of the Dakota Access pipeline, arguing it could threaten the health and well-being of Native Americans.
The U.N. experts also condemned local authorities’ violent crackdown on pipeline protesters, accusing them of using unjustified and excessive force in their “increasingly militarized response.”
Maina Kiai, the U.N. special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association, released a statement on Tuesday calling on the pipeline company Energy Transfer Partners “to pause all construction activity within 20 miles east and west of Lake Oahe.”
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They will react as the UK goverment did and thats keep it out of the media and let it blow away
Like any of these despotic governments will take any notice of the UN. All we get from them is Reports and Resolutions which are promptly ignored, and nothing changes!
“Will they respect the advice of the international organisation which is based in New York?” In a word No!
Or will they ignore it and carry on doing whatever they like, no matter who gets hurt – as the Conservative Government in the UK has done? In a word, Yes!