Official Statement on Violation of the Right to Sustainable Development and to Healthy Environment

Case 40-2018: Japan & Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Official Statement on Violation of the Right to Sustainable Development and to Healthy Environment

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights, on June 22, 2018, decides to reaffirm once again that Buddhist Spirituality does not endorse the illegal and immoral behavior of the government of Japan, which continues to violate International Law in the name of science by means of acts of Ecocide against hundreds of whales in the Southern Ocean, despite the fact that many of them were young and pregnant.

As a result, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights reaffirms that these ecocidal actions constitute a violation of the human right to sustainable development, since this kind of commercial enterprise has a huge impact on natural resources, not allowing the Biosphere to absorb such an impact. Actually, Japan's actions point to an unbridled economic growth that can produce an extinction of fundamental species, so that its actions are contrary to the increasing of the quality of life and social welfare, wasting or depleting renewable natural resources in which human life is sustained, so that it is a clear deterioration or injury of the environment and a violation of the right of future generations to use ecosystems for the satisfaction of their basic needs.

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights seeks that the States take advantage of natural resources but ensuring sustainable development, by preserving or replacing resources, preventing and controlling environmental deterioration, which is why the legal ethical sanction has been imposed on the government of Japan so that it ceases its ecocidal activities and repairs the damage caused to nature. The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights does not intend that Japan does not use its fishing resources, but it recalls two fundamental issues: 1) Whales are not fish, but are highly evolved beings with an intrinsic dignity as important as human dignity; 2) Natural resources should not be depredated but should be used coherently, so that nature should always be given the opportunity to regenerate itself, making economic progress compatible with the well-being of ecosystems as the common heritage of humanity. The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights has the socioecological function of compelling all States and citizens of the world to protect cultural and natural riches, protecting natural resources and ensuring the conservation and protection of the environment, since ecosystems are inalienable, imprescriptible and immune from distraint.

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights consecrates that all human beings have the right to enjoy a healthy environment, so that it is guaranteed the fact that the spiritual community (sangha) will participate in the decisions and acts that may affect it. In this way, it is concluded that Japan is violating its duty to protect biodiversity and the integrity of the environment, because it goes against the conservation of species of ecological significance. This violation of the human right to a healthy environment is fundamentally related to the right to life, which can only be guaranteed and enjoyed in conditions of quality, integrity and harmony.

Always with spirit of reconciliation (maitri),

Master Maitreya Samyaksambuddha

President and Spiritual Judge of the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights

Official Statement on UN Human Rights Council

Case n° 20/2016: United Nations (UN) & Secretary General Ban Ki-moon & Secretary General Antonio Guterres

Official Statement on UN Human Rights Council

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights, on June 20, 2018, decides to reaffirm again that the Buddhist Spirituality does not endorse the illegal and immoral behavior of the UN Human Rights Council, which during the last ten years has been dedicated to cover up states that violate human rights, and that have committed the worst international crimes, such as Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, Crimes against Humanity and Crimes against Peace.

As a result, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights provides ethical support for the decision of the US government to withdraw and abandon its membership within the UN Human Rights Council. In this sense, the Tribunal agrees with the US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, who criticized the hypocrisy of the organization, stating that the Human Rights Council has been a protector of human rights violators and a sink of political partiality, letting the most inhuman regimes to escape scrutiny by maintaining a seat within the Human Rights Council.

This can be demonstrated not only by the fact that many members of the UN Human Rights Council lack respect for the most basic human rights, as is the case with China, Cuba and the Democratic Republic of Congo, but it is also demonstrated the mockery and covering up that the Human Rights Council has carried out with regards to crimes against humanity committed by its member state Venezuela. In fact, at the end of 2017, the States of Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay and Peru, protested against the UN Human Rights Council, by publicly demanding the expulsion of Venezuela as a member of the Council, because this State is a dictatorship that does not meet the requirements and obligations to be a member of the Human Rights Council, since it has broken the democratic order and has also seriously violated the human rights of its own people.

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights, since it is devoid of prejudices and ideologies, agrees with the US government in its criticism of the UN Human Rights Council, although it is simultaneously made clear the fact that the USA has long time ago ceased to be a leading country in the defense of human rights. 

Always with spirit of reconciliation (maitri),

H.E. Master Maitreya Samyaksambuddha

President and Spiritual Judge of the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights

PRONOUNCEMENT on Violation of the Human Right to Life

Case 27/2017: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) 

PRONOUNCEMENT on Violation of the Human Right to Life

June 21, 2018

In the first place, the International Buddhist Ethics Committee denounces the terrible demagogy of the Argentine government of President Macri, which has decided to create the legislation to decriminalize abortion in order to generate a public debate that diverts the attention of the media regarding the chronic economic crisis that Argentina is suffering.

Secondly, the International Buddhist Ethics Committee denounces the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) for continuing to show an attitude of violation of human rights to life, peace and integrity, after having declared that the human embryo is not a person.

Third, the International Buddhist Ethics Committee dictates that women's rights are not above the rights of the unborn child, recalling the fact that there is no valid reason to abort as long as there is the right to give the child for adoption, since if the child is the product of rape or if there are possibilities of being born with an illness, the mother is always free to deliver the child to the care of others instead of simply deciding to murder the baby and cut his/her life project.

Fourth, the International Buddhist Ethics Committee supports the approach of the argentine economist Javier Milei, who in the name of the liberal tradition spoke out against abortion for violating the main of three principles that are defended by Liberalism: the right to life, to freedom and to property.

Fifth, the International Buddhist Ethics Committee denounces the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) for declaring that it is inadmissible to grant the condition of person to the embryo, this being a violation of international treaties that the IACHR allegedly seeks to defend, such as the American Convention on Human Rights that affirms that every person has the right to have his life respected and this right shall be protected by law and, in general, from the moment of conception.

Sixth, the International Buddhist Ethics Committee denounces the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for misinterpreting the letter of the Convention, stating that the human embryo would not be a person, which provides one of the worst legal precedents that there can be, since it would enable then not only abortion but also the experimentation with human embryos, because if they are not people then they would not have human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Seventh, the International Buddhist Ethics Committee confirms the absolute non-existence of the right to abortion, which is an invention of corrupt politicians and the media that despise the intrinsic dignity of human life, its Buddhic-nature or its natural rights, confirming that effectively every woman has the right to reproductive autonomy and to access reproductive health services as long as this does not imply the homicide of the child, since freely and responsibly deciding the number of her children and the size of her family can be solved adequately through the compassionate resource of adoption instead of resorting to the inhuman resource of abortion.

Eighth, the International Buddhist Ethics Committee agrees with Pope Francis I that abortion is a method very similar to the eugenics used by Nazism.

All these eight points demonstrate that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights violates human rights to life, peace and integrity, violating both the Argentine Constitution that considers the embryo as a person, but also violating the very American Convention on Human Rights that protects life from the moment of conception.

Always with spirit of reconciliation (maitri),

H.E. Master Maitreya Samyaksambuddha

Judge and President of the International Buddhist Ethics Committee

Legal Requirement on U.N. Conference on Disarmament

Case n° 20/2016: United Nations (UN) & Secretary General Ban Ki-moon & Secretary General Antonio Guterres

Legal Requirement on U.N. Conference on Disarmament

June 20, 2018

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights legally requires the Conference on Disarmament sponsored by the United Nations Organization to immediately cancel the presidency of this conference at the hands of the government of Syria, since it would imply an endorsement of the human rights violations committed by this government that recently would have carried out chemical weapons attacks on civilian populations in its country, which constitutes crimes against humanity and war crimes.

This requirement to revoke the presidency of Syria in the Conference on Disarmament of May 2018 arises from the fact that the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad's would recently carried out State Terrorism using chemical weapons prohibited by International Law, which produced the subsequent bombing from USA, United Kingdom and France against Syria, which obviously is also a violation of International Law and the human right to peace.

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights agrees with Hillel Neuer, director of the UN Watch organization, who affirmed that the fact that the government of Syria presides over a UN conference on disarmament of chemical and nuclear weapons is something similar to putting a serial sexual abuser in charge of a women's shelter, because Bashar al-Assad would be the most terrible violator of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction and the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction. In this sense, it is perceived that putting the government of Syria in the presidency of the UN conference on disarmament is a supreme disrespect to the hundreds of innocent victims of the Syrian regime, mostly women and children, destroying once again all kinds of ethical credibility of the UN.

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights considers that the democratic governments of the world should withdraw and refrain from participating in this immoral conference organized by the UN that is an offense against world peace. In addition, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights confirms that the fact that Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the UN, has not intervened to annul the presidency of Syria in the UN Conference on Disarmament demonstrates the Secretary General's payment of favors for those countries which chose him for the office, as is the case of the Russian government allied with Syria. Even in 2013, the former UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, repudiated the election of Syria as a member of the UNESCO Human Rights Committee, which shows that there are historical precedents for a UN Secretary-General to act as a moral voice when certain UN committees make decisions contrary to the ethical reputation of the organization, especially when illegal governments use their participation in the UN as political legitimation to continue perpetrating crimes against humanity.

Always with spirit of reconciliation (maitri),

H.E. Master Maitreya Samyaksambuddha

President of the International Buddhist Ethics Committee & Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights

Notification to “Venerable Dhammapiya” Secretary General of the IBC

Case 44-2018: International Buddhist Confederation (IBC)

Notification to “Venerable Dhammapiya” Secretary General of the IBC

On June 9, 2018, an International Notification to "Venerable Dhammapiya" is issued due to the immoral way of acting on the part of the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC), which has been sentenced as Responsible for Violation of International Buddhist Law and Violation of International Human Rights Law. This Ethical Judgment was the karmic consequence in the face of the illegal behavior of crimes against humanity carried out by high members of the IBC, such as Bhaddanta Kumarabhivamsa, Lama Lobzang, Sogyal Rinpoche and Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche.

Although "Venerable Dhammapiya", Secretary General of the IBC, has stated in December 2017 that the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC) is going to suggest alternative measures of sustainable development in the face of the persecution of the Rohingya People in Myanmar, including stating that the IBC should find a Buddhist solution to the conflict and should actively participate in solving the crisis of the Rohingya People, it is undoubtedly an act of duplicity or demagogic double standard. Given the fact that Bhaddanta Kumarabhivamsa is Spiritual Patron of the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC) despite having been sentenced as Responsible for actively participating in the Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing of Myanmar against the Rohingya People, then the words of "Venerable Dhammapiya" constitute an act of falsehood and total hypocrisy when saying that he condemns violence against the Rohingyas and also condemns anyone perpetuating violence in the name of Buddhism. As long as the IBC does not expel Bhaddanta Kumarabhivamsa, complying with the precepts and ethical judgments of the International Buddhist Law, then the speeches of "Venerable Dhammapiya" will be nothing more than false and demagogic words without any sense of Truth and Honesty.

On the other hand, it is confirmed that as long as Sogyal Rinpoche and Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche are not expelled from the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC), then "Venerable Dhammapiya" will be complicit in violations of the rights of women.

Finally, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights repudiates the complicit silence of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, who continues to provide spiritual support to the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC), deciding to ignore the Violations of International Buddhist Law and Violations of Human Rights committed by the IBC. For this reason, the Buddhist spiritual recognition issued by the World Association of Theravada to Tenzin Gyatso is ordered to be annulled. 

Always with spirit of reconciliation (maitri),

H.E. Master Maitreya Samyaksambuddha

President and Judge of the International Buddhist Ethics Committee and Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights