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DuPont Bans Confederate Flag and Emblems

A Result of U.N. "Norms" Regulations

http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/links/norms-Aug2003.html

DuPont willingly agrees to comply with United Nations "Norms"
Regulations and be an active partner of 300+ worldwide
corporations acting in concert.

Under U. N. 'Norms' mandates DuPont defines the Confederate Flag
as a 'Human Rights' violation because they define it
as a 'despicable symbol of hate and racial slavery.'

On August 13, 2003, the UN Sub-Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights unanimously agreed to transmit to the UN Commission on Human Rights for consideration and adoption a compilation of "Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights." The draft Norms, long under preparation by a Working Group of the Sub-Commission, comprise an array of company obligations with respect to human rights drawn from existing international human rights, labor and environmental standards. Their approval by the Sub-Commission is widely regarded as a first step towards UN regulation of multinational companies. The draft Norms call for companies to be subject to periodic monitoring and verification of their activities by the UN. A commentary by the Working Group that devised the Norms calls for action to be taken against companies which fail to comply with them and proposes that the Commission on Human Rights consider establishing a group to receive information and take definitive action when businesses fail to comply.

What the UN "Norms" Will Mean To You

The UN says your country, and corporations and other businesses, must promote the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The UN says that corporations, other businesses, their officers and persons working for them, have to obey ALL U.N. treaties and international laws.

Human Rights

The UN says your country, corporations and other businesses, must "promote, fulfill, respect and ensure respect of" [ENFORCE] UN treaties and international law on human rights. The UN "Norms" will legislate and enforce discrimination based on race, color, sex (not just what sex you are but what your sexual preference is, too), language, religion, political opinion, national or social origin, social status, indigenous status, disability, and age throughout the world.

Very powerful, politically motivated and entrenched homosexual organizations like DuPont's B-GLAD, (Bisexual Gay Lesbian Transgendered and Allies at DuPont) and hundreds of similar acronym homosexual organizations entrenched within transnational corporations drive U.N. 'Human Rights' and other agendas. The United Nations homosexual entrenched organization is UNGLOBE (United Nations Gay Lesbian Or Bisexual Employees.) http://www.unglobe.org/Who-we-are.htm Homosexual organizations have their own internet service provider available so there is little or no censorship as it is with ATT, Comcast, Earthlink, etc. Their homosexual Rainbow Flag is worldwide, but the Southern Confederate Flag is despicable in their eyes.

Security

September 11 has had many consequences. Governments have responded with a wide range of legislative and other measures.http://web.amnesty.org/web/ar2002.nsf/FOREpart2/FOREpart2?OpenDocument

The UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1373, setting out a range of legislative and other measures for your country to adopt to prevent and suppress terrorism. The Security Council established a Counter-Terrorism Committee to assess progress of your country, and your country is required to report to the UN. Neither the Security Council nor the Counter-Terrorism Committee reminded your country of its UN Charter obligation to comply with international human rights or advised it how to do so. Here comes the "Norms"!

If your company supplies a country, say Australia, with military products, you will now have to tell Australia it can't use your military products if human rights will be violated. You will be dictating to Australia what it does with your military products! But guess who is really dictating - the UN!

If your company produces or sells weapons that have been declared illegal under international law, guess what? "gun control".

If your company provides security arrangements, it can only be used for preventive or defensive services -- NOT for a country's military or law enforcement. In other words, if your company provides security for a Canadian arena showing a hockey game, that security can only be for preventive or defensive measures, and you can't work directly with Canadian military or law enforcement!

In addition, you SHALL NOT hire individuals, private militias and paramilitary groups, or work with units of a country's security forces known "to have violated human rights." If you are doing business in say, Iraq, ... see the possibilities here? The UN is telling you who you can hire and it can undermine your country's war efforts!

Further, if your company is using a particular country's public security forces, you will have to consult and/or report to the "host government". In other words, if you are Boeing, now building a brand new military aeroplane in China for the United States, and you have hired security forces in China to guard your plant, you now have to consult and/or report to China! A foreign government will know all the security ins/outs of your company! Think of all the government jobs and companies now "outsourcing" to Mexico, China, India ...

Safety

The U.N. will not allow anyone to work more than 48 hours per week or more than 10 hours a day! Overtime SHALL NOT exceed 12 hours per week and can only be sporadic, not on a regular basis!

You are going to have to make sure your employees are making enough money to "ensure an adequate standard of living", and that they have "adequate living conditions" -- Does this mean inspecting where your employees live?

Your company will abide by ALL UN mandates and international law (and that list is lengthy). You will have to consult fully with safety authorities, worker unions and international organizations on safety standards.

If one of your workers thinks he is working under dangerous conditions, you will have to allow him to stop working, not subject him to corrective action because he stopped working, and not make him return to work until the purported dangerous condition is corrected.

Ultimately all businesses will have to let workers have unions, not interfere with the unions, and let your workers strike! You will have to let your workers and their union reps. have access to corporate information (files), the building facilities and "other resources."

Economic/Social/Cultural/Civil/Political Rights

Your company, under UN "Norms", will have to respect cultural policies. "Culture" is defined as totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, religion, sexual orientation including homosexual practices and thought characteristic of a community or population. Does this mean if your workers believe in jihad or sodomizing little children or animals you must respect that under United Nations law?

You will have to "encourage social progress." "Social" is defined as of or pertaining to society; pertaining to the upper classes; pertaining to or occupied with welfare work. "Socialism" is a social system. Does this mean you will have to encourage socialism? How about communism? Or "encourage social progress" under the UN "Norms"?

Under U.N. regulations you will now have to make sure your goods and services provided are not used to abuse "human rights." How will you track this? Will you ask your customers, "Hey, you're not going to use my products to commit genocide or for a war, are you?" Do you think your customer will tell you if they were?

You will have to "respect political rights and even contribute to their realization." Political rights consist in the power to participate, directly or indirectly, in the establishment or management of government. Your company now has to "contribute to" the establishment or management of a government (like say, Mexico)? Or does this mean your company has to "contribute to" government under the UN "Norms"?

You will have to "respect civil rights and even contribute to their realization." Civil rights are those which consist in the power of an individual acquiring and enjoying property, exercising paternal and marital powers, and the like. Does this mean you will have to help your employees acquire/enjoy property, etc.?

There is even a provision under the UN "Norms" where you will have to make sure food in quantity and quality is available to satisfy your employees. (!?) On the job? Off the job?

Consumer Protection

Your company SHALL NOT produce, distribute, market or advertise harmful or "potentially harmful" products. Like gunpowder? Guns?

You SHALL NOT enter into arrangements with competing businesses to directly or indirectly divide territories, create monopolies. Isn't this the essence of "Capitalism"?

You will have to label products as to the contents and possible hazardous effects - warn of death or serious injury from a defect, use or misuse. Would this interfere with your ability to market your products? Wouldn't labeling be expensive? And, think of this, wouldn't the cheap alternative to labeling be RFID barcode "chips"? And, what better way to track whether your goods and services provided are used "to abuse human rights."

Environmental Protection

Your company SHALL follow ALL national and international laws and agreements on the environment. Does this mean the UN Kyoto Protocol on global warming which the United States rejected? Note the UN "Norms" states you CANNOT use the lack of full scientific certainty as a reason to delay measures.

Your company will have to follow international (read: UN) environmental standards for land use, bio diversity, water. Have you ever heard of UN World Heritage Sites? Can you say "land grab"?p

Your company will have to conduct an environmental impact assessment on your activities, particularly the impact on groups - children, elderly, indigenous peoples, communities and/or women. What expensive company will you have to hire to do the assessment and to be "environmentally accredited"? You will have to make the environmental impact statement public.

You will have to report "anticipated" or actual releases of hazardous/toxic substances and educate/train employees.

Monitoring and Compliance

United States companies will be directed by the United Nations.

You will only be able to do business with (including purchasing from and selling to) contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, licensees, distributors, and natural or other legal persons who also follow the "Norms." Imagine that! The UN dictating to you who you can do business with!

You will have to report to your stockholders/stakeholders that you are in compliance with UN "Norms," and what actions you are taking to correct any violations.

You will have to train your managers and workers and representatives in United Nations "Norms" practices and regulations.

Further, you will have to ensure your contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, licensees, distributors, and any other natural or legal persons with whom you enter into any agreement are subject to monitoring under the United Nations "Norms"!

You will have to tell the body who enforces the UN "Norms" where your offices, subsidiaries and factories are so that you can be monitored.

UN "human rights treaty bodies" will implement the "Norms" through the creation of additional reporting requirements for your country. In other words, the United States will have to report on you to the United Nations !

UN "human rights treaty bodies" will monitor your compliance with the "Norms" by receiving information from non-governmental organizations, unions, individuals and others. This is a true "snitch" situation being set up! We anticipate that each country will have its own politbureau-type agency, with that agency putting its own politbureau-employee in your company -- all in the name of ENFORCEMENT!

You will have to give your workers a confidential way to file a complaint against you if you violate the UN "Norms" and make sure you make a record of each complaint and have an independent investigation take place.

You will have to have an annual assessment of your compliance with the UN "Norms." Understand that an "independent" investigation and/or an "annual assessment" will probably cost you money. Case in point is "accreditation" procedures for SA8000 (sold as a way for companies to demonstrate they are socially accountable, by pledging to adhere to a code of labor relations) by Social Accountability International (SAI). A corporation that wants to be certified for SA8000, must pay SAI $15,000 just to apply for accreditation, and an additional $5,000 every three years to renew its status. The auditors it selects must pay $1,400 per person per day to have SAI assessment staff observe them during an actual audit, plus $800 in per-diem travel expenses for a full day. http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=316

There will be big money to be made by whomever will enforce compliance with the UN "Norms"!

Another kicker -- The UN is calling for unions to use the "Norms" as a basis for negotiating an agreement with you!

The UN wants governments to implement and monitor the use of the Norms -- What this means is that in America (YOU, the taxpayer) would bear the cost of ensuring that the UN "Norms" are enforced legally here in the United States.

If you are charged with a violation under the UN "Norms" you could have damages assessed against you! The "Norms" say that national courts and/or international tribunals, pursuant to national and international law, will determine damages in regard to criminal sanctions. Undoubtedly, the International World Court will be the governing body over national courts and/or international tribunals.

Here's a partial list of UN treaties and international laws you would have to abide by under the UN "Norms":

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
The Slavery Convention and the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery
The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
The Convention on the Rights of the Child
The International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
The four Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and two Additional Protocols thereto for the protection of victims of war
The Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
The Convention on Biological Diversity
The International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage
The Convention on Civil Liability for Damage Resulting from Activities Dangerous to the Environment
The Declaration on the Right to Development
The Rio Declaration on the Environment and Development
The Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development
The United Nations Millennium Declaration
The Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights
The International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes adopted by the World Health Assembly
The Ethical Criteria for Medical Drug Promotion and the "Health for All in the Twenty-First Century" policy of the World Health Organization
The Convention against Discrimination in Education of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization; conventions and recommendations of the International Labour Organization
The Convention and Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees
The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
The American Convention on Human Rights
The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
The Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Conventions No. 87 concerning the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize and No. 98 concerning the Application of the Principles of the Right to Organize and Bargain Collectively
Tripartite Declaration of Principles Concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy and the Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work of the International Labor Organization
Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and the Committee on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
United Nations Global Compact
Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work and the Code of Practice on Managing Disability in the Workplace of the International Labour Convention (ILO)
United Nations Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials
The United Nations Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials
ILO Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29) and the Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105)
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
ILO Conventions:
- Nos. 110 (Plantations, 1958)
- 115 (Radiation Protection Convention, 1960)
- 119 (Guarding of Machinery Convention, 1963)
- 120 (Hygiene (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1964)
- 127 (Maximum Weight Convention, 1967)
- 136 (Benzene Convention, 1971)
- 139 (Occupational Cancer Convention, 1974)
- 147 (Merchant Shipping, 1976)
- 148 (Working Environment (Air Pollution, Noise and Vibration) Convention, 1977)
- 155 (Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981)
- 161 (Occupational Health Services Convention, 1985)
- 162 (Asbestos Convention, 1986)
- 167 (Safety and Health in Construction Convention, 1988)
- 170 (Chemicals Convention, 1990)
- 174 (Prevention of Major Industrial Accidents Convention, 1993)
- 176 (Safety and Health in Mines Convention, 1995)
- 183 (Maternity Protection, 2000) and other relevant recommendations, as well as ensuring their application under ILO Conventions:
  - 81 (Labour Inspection Convention, 1947)
  - 129 (Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention, 1969)
  - 135 (Workers' Representatives Convention, 1971), and their successor conventions.
Such a safe and healthy work environment for women and men shall aid in the prevention of accidents and injuries arising out of, linked with, or occurring within the course of work.
Transnational corporations and other business enterprises shall also take into account the particular needs of migrant workers as set forth in the Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975 (No. 143) and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families;
The Set of Multilaterally Agreed Equitable Principles and Rules for the Control of Restrictive Business Practices of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
United Nations Guidelines for Consumer Protection
United Nations Environmental Programme.

So how do you like life under the dictates of the UN "Norms"?

For more information on the "Norms", see

Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights, U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/Sub.2/2003/12/Rev.2 (2003)