Amnesty International: The organization denounces the “double standard”

Amnesty International Burkina Faso held a press conference at its premises this Wednesday, March 29, 2023. Objective: to publish its global report.

According to Yves Boukary Traoré, director of Amnesty International Burkina Faso, <International constate que la pratique du deux poids, deux mesures et les réponses insuffisantes aux atteintes aux droits humains commises aux quatre coins de la planète, ont alimenté l’impunité et l’instabilité. La pandémie du COVID 19 et la guerre en Ukraine ont accentué le principe du << deux poids, deux mesures>> Rich countries have accumulated stocks of anti-COVID 19 vaccine and weakened multilateral systems of redistribution, thus contributing to worsening inequalities. The situation has obviously not changed in 2022>>.

With regard to violations of international humanitarian law and the rights of people on the move, it notes that <International humanitaire >>.

As for the types of violations that have been recorded in Burkina in 2022, Aziz Kabré, campaign and action coordinator for Amnesty International Burkina Faso, says that << les groupes armés et les forces gouvernementales ont commis de graves violations du droit international humanitaire >>. For him, the armed conflict has continued to undermine the rights to food, health and education. <>, he noted.

Bernadette W GANSONRE /Trainee