ウクライナ対応で西側の「二重基準」鮮明に　アムネスティ

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】国際人権団体アムネスティ・インターナショナルは２８日に公表した２０２２年の年報で、ロシアのウクライナ侵攻を受け各国は怒りの声を上げたが、他の地域での人権侵害には沈黙しており、西側諸国の「二重基準」が鮮明になったとの見方を示した。（写真は国際人権団体アムネスティ・インターナショナルのアニェス・カラマール事務総長）
　年報は、西側諸国はサウジアラビアの人権問題やエジプトにおける弾圧、イスラエルのパレスチナ人に対する扱いなどには沈黙を貫いていると批判している。
　アムネスティのアニェス・カラマール事務総長は「ロシアのウクライナ侵攻に際しての西側諸国の見事な対応は二重基準を際立たせた。他の多くの国連憲章違反への対応を見ると、筋が通っていないことが鮮明になった」と述べた。
　侵攻開始後、多くの国が対ロシア制裁を実施し、ウクライナから避難した人々を受け入れた。国際刑事裁判所は、ウクライナで行われた戦争犯罪の疑いについて捜査を始めた。
　一方、イスラエル政府は昨年、パレスチナ人を居住地から追放して入植地を違法に拡大し、占領下のヨルダン川西岸地区内の既存の入植地や前哨基地を合法化する措置を講じたほか、イスラエル軍によるパレスチナ人殺害が相次いでいるにもかかわらず、西側諸国は「抑圧体制」の停止を要求できていないと年報は指摘している。
　また、サウジアラビアでは、人権活動家は自らの意見を述べただけで「不当な裁判」を受けて投獄されており、１日で８１人の死刑が執行されたこともあるとした。
　エジプトでも、人権活動家や記者、抗議デモ参加者、反体制派など多数が身柄を拘束されており、「拷問の横行が続いている」としている。
　さらに年報は、欧州各国はウクライナから避難した人々を歓迎したが、シリアやアフガニスタン、リビアの難民に対しては同様の態度を示さなかったとも批判している。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】

〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/03/28-18:12）

Global outrage over Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year has only served to expose the West's double standards towards human rights abuses throughout the world, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
In its annual world report for 2022, Amnesty pointed to what it described as the West's silence on Saudi Arabia's rights record, repression in Egypt and Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
The West's formidable response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine underscored double standards, exposing in comparison how inconsequential their reactions have been to so many other violations of the UN Charter, said Amnesty secretary general Agnes Callamard as she presented the group's world report in Paris.
Russia's assault that began on February 24, 2022 gave us an all too rare view of what becomes possible when there is political will to act as the West closed ranks to support Ukraine, she added.
Many countries imposed sanctions on Moscow and opened their borders to Ukrainian refugees after the invasion, while the International Criminal Court launched an investigation into war crimes in Ukraine.
But Amnesty said the conflict had highlighted shortcomings in responding to abuses in other parts of the globe.
It singled out the West's deafening silence on Saudi Arabia's human rights record, inaction on Egypt and the refusal to confront Israel's system of apartheid against Palestinians.
Amnesty, fellow rights watchdog Human Rights Watch and a UN special rapporteur have concluded that Israel's treatment of Palestinians amounts to policies of apartheid, the segregation of black people and whites in white-ruled South Africa, a charge the Israeli state denies.
Last year, successive Israeli governments rolled out measures forcing more Palestinians from their homes, expanding illegal settlements, and legalising existing settlements and outposts across the occupied West Bank, Amnesty said.
But despite this -- and Israeli forces killing Palestinians in the occupied West Bank -- Western nations failed to demand an end to that system of oppression, it said.
- 'No blueprint' -
In Saudi Arabia, human rights activists continued to languish in prison, people were jailed for their opinions after grossly unfair trials, 81 men were put to death in a single day, and migrants died in custody.
In Egypt, the group said, thousands of human rights defenders, journalists, protesters and alleged dissidents lingered behind bars, and torture remained rampant.
Although European countries welcomed Ukrainian refugees, they did not show the same kindness to people fleeing fighting in Syria, Afghanistan and Libya, Amnesty said.
The United States also welcomed Ukrainians, yet under policies and practices rooted in anti-Black racism, it expelled more than 25,000 Haitians between September 2021 and May 2022, and subjected many to torture and other ill-treatment, the group said.
In Iran women died for dancing, for singing, for not wearing a veil as people rose up in protests against the country's Islamic system, Callamard said.
Amnesty also stressed the failure of global institutions to respond adequately to conflicts killing thousands of people including in Ethiopia, Myanmar and Yemen.
The war in Ukraine diverted resources and attention away from the climate crisis, other long-standing conflicts and human suffering the world over, Amnesty said.
There was no evidence to be found in 2022, that the international response to the Ukraine crisis would become a blueprint for consistent and coherent responses to conflicts and crises, said Callamard.