{"id":971,"date":"1981-12-15T17:25:14","date_gmt":"1981-12-15T17:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/?p=971"},"modified":"2016-07-05T13:02:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T19:02:44","slug":"canada-violated-rights-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/canada-violated-rights-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada violated rights agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Pinkney&#8217;s 1981 United Nations ruling victory was written about by the Associated Press and published on Tuesday, December 15, 1981 in the\u00a0<strong><em>Ottawa Citizen<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The legal precedent established by Larry Pinkney in his self-authored case to the United Nations, resulting from the UN ruling, was utilized in cases throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpts from the article:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canada violated rights agreement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GENEVA (AP) \u2013 The UN Human Right Committee has ruled that Canada violated an international agreement when it limited an American black activist&#8217;s right to appeal his extortion conviction.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-member committee, which has its headquarters in the Swiss city, dismissed two other compaints filed by Larry James Pinkney, a former Black Panther and, since 1974, chairman of the Black National Independence party.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Canada is one of 23 countries which signed the so-called optional protocol to the 1977 Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. That protocol authorizes the UN committee to consider individual human rights complaints against signatories&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/Larry%20Pinkney\/bio.htm\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"400px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Pinkney&#8217;s 1981 United Nations ruling victory was written about by the Associated Press and published on Tuesday, December 15, 1981 in the\u00a0Ottawa Citizen.<\/p>\n<p>The legal precedent established by Larry Pinkney in his self-authored case to the United Nations, resulting from the UN ruling, was utilized in cases throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpts from the article:<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43,31,45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4241,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/4241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}