Justice For All Asks For
The Biden Administration
- December 2, 2020
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Honorable Joseph R. Biden Jr.,
President-elect
Justice For All congratulates you, and Vice-President Elect Kamala Harris, on winning the 2020 elections.
We are grateful for your commitment to human rights and recall your principled and passionate stand for Bosnian Muslims in the 1990s. You not only recognized the genocide but persuaded the United States government to take action to stop genocide while Europeans were silent witnesses.
Justice For All was born as the Bosnia Task Force, a coalition of all major Muslim American organizations. Working in sync with the National Organization of Women (NOW), we organized rallies in 100 cities for Bosnia and worked on getting rape declared a war crime. Since then we have emerged as a human rights organization specifically interested in genocide prevention.
As early as Fall 2019, we spoke with your policy team about India, Kashmir, Burma, and China: specifically regarding Rohingya, Uyghur and other persecuted minority groups.
To protect minority rights, democracy and pluralism, Justice For All has outlined foreign and domestic policy priorities for your administration to move us into a new phase of promoting peace and justice.
These are our expectations of the Biden administration:
Justice For All appreciates President-Elect Biden’s commitment to organize an international summit of democratic leaders to push back against authoritarian practices and violations of human rights. We hope that the organizers of the summit solicit ideas from Justice For All and other human rights organizations. Unfortunately even many democracies are involved in extremely serious violations of human rights–including the world’s largest democracy, India.
International Human Rights
Burma
A genocide determination by the US State Department is a prime recommendation by Justice For All’s Burma Task Force, representing a coalition of 38 Muslim organizations working with an interfaith coalition. Ending this genocide must be a human rights priority for the new administration.
To give the world a clear signal that the United States cares for human rights in the world, we recommend the following:
- Use sanctions, and the threat of sanctions against leaders and military owned businesses to achieve safe and secure return of Rohingyas to their ancestral homeland
- Accept the December 2019 House resolution asserting that the Rohingya people face genocide, with the State Department declaring it as such;
- Work with allies in ASEAN and European countries to pressure Burma to allow safe, dignified, and voluntary repatriation of Rohingya;
- The new ambassador to Burma should emphasize human rights;
- Burma’s GSP status should be cancelled within the first 100 days;
- Call a summit of world leaders on Rohingya refugees;
- Join the Gambian case against Burma at the International Court of Justice;
- Ask Bangladesh to grant refugee status to Rohingyas;
- Allow more Rohingya refugees into the US, especially widows and orphans, and ensure their resettlement as a special class;
- USAID funding should be conditioned on Bangladesh granting full educational opportunities to all Rohingya.
India
A genocide determination by the US State Department is a prime recommendation by Justice For All’s Burma Task Force, representing a coalition of 38 Muslim organizations working with an interfaith coalition. Ending this genocide must be a human rights priority for the new administration.
To give the world a clear signal that the United States cares for human rights in the world, we recommend the following:
- Use sanctions, and the threat of sanctions against leaders and military owned businesses to achieve safe and secure return of Rohingyas to their ancestral homeland
- Accept the December 2019 House resolution asserting that the Rohingya people face genocide, with the State Department declaring it as such;
- Work with allies in ASEAN and European countries to pressure Burma to allow safe, dignified, and voluntary repatriation of Rohingya;
- The new ambassador to Burma should emphasize human rights;
- Burma’s GSP status should be cancelled within the first 100 days;
- Call a summit of world leaders on Rohingya refugees;
- Join the Gambian case against Burma at the International Court of Justice;
- Ask Bangladesh to grant refugee status to Rohingyas;
- Allow more Rohingya refugees into the US, especially widows and orphans, and ensure their resettlement as a special class;
- USAID funding should be conditioned on Bangladesh granting full educational opportunities to all Rohingya.
China
A genocide determination by the US State Department is a prime recommendation by Justice For All’s Burma Task Force, representing a coalition of 38 Muslim organizations working with an interfaith coalition. Ending this genocide must be a human rights priority for the new administration.
To give the world a clear signal that the United States cares for human rights in the world, we recommend the following:
- Use sanctions, and the threat of sanctions against leaders and military owned businesses to achieve safe and secure return of Rohingyas to their ancestral homeland
- Accept the December 2019 House resolution asserting that the Rohingya people face genocide, with the State Department declaring it as such;
- Work with allies in ASEAN and European countries to pressure Burma to allow safe, dignified, and voluntary repatriation of Rohingya;
- The new ambassador to Burma should emphasize human rights;
- Burma’s GSP status should be cancelled within the first 100 days;
- Call a summit of world leaders on Rohingya refugees;
- Join the Gambian case against Burma at the International Court of Justice;
- Ask Bangladesh to grant refugee status to Rohingyas;
- Allow more Rohingya refugees into the US, especially widows and orphans, and ensure their resettlement as a special class;
- USAID funding should be conditioned on Bangladesh granting full educational opportunities to all Rohingya.
Kashmir
A genocide determination by the US State Department is a prime recommendation by Justice For All’s Burma Task Force, representing a coalition of 38 Muslim organizations working with an interfaith coalition. Ending this genocide must be a human rights priority for the new administration.
To give the world a clear signal that the United States cares for human rights in the world, we recommend the following:
- Use sanctions, and the threat of sanctions against leaders and military owned businesses to achieve safe and secure return of Rohingyas to their ancestral homeland
- Accept the December 2019 House resolution asserting that the Rohingya people face genocide, with the State Department declaring it as such;
- Work with allies in ASEAN and European countries to pressure Burma to allow safe, dignified, and voluntary repatriation of Rohingya;
- The new ambassador to Burma should emphasize human rights;
- Burma’s GSP status should be cancelled within the first 100 days;
- Call a summit of world leaders on Rohingya refugees;
- Join the Gambian case against Burma at the International Court of Justice;
- Ask Bangladesh to grant refugee status to Rohingyas;
- Allow more Rohingya refugees into the US, especially widows and orphans, and ensure their resettlement as a special class;
- USAID funding should be conditioned on Bangladesh granting full educational opportunities to all Rohingya.
United Nation
A genocide determination by the US State Department is a prime recommendation by Justice For All’s Burma Task Force, representing a coalition of 38 Muslim organizations working with an interfaith coalition. Ending this genocide must be a human rights priority for the new administration.
To give the world a clear signal that the United States cares for human rights in the world, we recommend the following:
- Use sanctions, and the threat of sanctions against leaders and military owned businesses to achieve safe and secure return of Rohingyas to their ancestral homeland
- Accept the December 2019 House resolution asserting that the Rohingya people face genocide, with the State Department declaring it as such;
- Work with allies in ASEAN and European countries to pressure Burma to allow safe, dignified, and voluntary repatriation of Rohingya;
- The new ambassador to Burma should emphasize human rights;
- Burma’s GSP status should be cancelled within the first 100 days;
- Call a summit of world leaders on Rohingya refugees;
- Join the Gambian case against Burma at the International Court of Justice;
- Ask Bangladesh to grant refugee status to Rohingyas;
- Allow more Rohingya refugees into the US, especially widows and orphans, and ensure their resettlement as a special class;
- USAID funding should be conditioned on Bangladesh granting full educational opportunities to all Rohingya.
International Religious Freedom
A genocide determination by the US State Department is a prime recommendation by Justice For All’s Burma Task Force, representing a coalition of 38 Muslim organizations working with an interfaith coalition. Ending this genocide must be a human rights priority for the new administration.
To give the world a clear signal that the United States cares for human rights in the world, we recommend the following:
- Use sanctions, and the threat of sanctions against leaders and military owned businesses to achieve safe and secure return of Rohingyas to their ancestral homeland
- Accept the December 2019 House resolution asserting that the Rohingya people face genocide, with the State Department declaring it as such;
- Work with allies in ASEAN and European countries to pressure Burma to allow safe, dignified, and voluntary repatriation of Rohingya;
- The new ambassador to Burma should emphasize human rights;
- Burma’s GSP status should be cancelled within the first 100 days;
- Call a summit of world leaders on Rohingya refugees;
- Join the Gambian case against Burma at the International Court of Justice;
- Ask Bangladesh to grant refugee status to Rohingyas;
- Allow more Rohingya refugees into the US, especially widows and orphans, and ensure their resettlement as a special class;
- USAID funding should be conditioned on Bangladesh granting full educational opportunities to all Rohingya.
Domestic Human Rights Policies
Refugees and Immigrants
We appreciate your resolve to produce, on the first day of the Biden administration, comprehensive immigration legislation with a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants as well as DREAMers.
We also appreciate your commitment to establish a task force to reunite children and parents separated at the border. We request that the task force be bi-partisan and the President establishes a “Parents Fund” for all Americans to donate to reunification efforts to make a point to the world that America has a heart and that we are capable of doing the right thing.
We also request the following. The Biden administration should:
- Order an audit to discover and rescind within 30 days all the administrative processes and directives initiated by Stephen Miller, the Trump advisor who has undermined the immigration system
- Call an international summit on the state of refugees around the world. The world is facing the largest refugee crisis since World War II
- Increase the legal number/quota of refugees allowed into the country, preferably in the afore-mentioned international summit
- Restore the old citizenship test. Most Americans would fail the new citizenship test imposed by the Trump administration
- End the use of privately-owned immigration detention facilities
- Asylum and detention policies in the US must stop violating human rights
- Train the staff of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as Customs and Border Protection in communications for an honorable and welcoming treatment of aliens and visitors to the USA
War on Terror
A genocide determination by the US State Department is a prime recommendation by Justice For All’s Burma Task Force, representing a coalition of 38 Muslim organizations working with an interfaith coalition. Ending this genocide must be a human rights priority for the new administration.
To give the world a clear signal that the United States cares for human rights in the world, we recommend the following:
- Use sanctions, and the threat of sanctions against leaders and military owned businesses to achieve safe and secure return of Rohingyas to their ancestral homeland
- Accept the December 2019 House resolution asserting that the Rohingya people face genocide, with the State Department declaring it as such;
- Work with allies in ASEAN and European countries to pressure Burma to allow safe, dignified, and voluntary repatriation of Rohingya;
- The new ambassador to Burma should emphasize human rights;
- Burma’s GSP status should be cancelled within the first 100 days;
- Call a summit of world leaders on Rohingya refugees;
- Join the Gambian case against Burma at the International Court of Justice;
- Ask Bangladesh to grant refugee status to Rohingyas;
- Allow more Rohingya refugees into the US, especially widows and orphans, and ensure their resettlement as a special class;
- USAID funding should be conditioned on Bangladesh granting full educational opportunities to all Rohingya.
Drone Attacks
A genocide determination by the US State Department is a prime recommendation by Justice For All’s Burma Task Force, representing a coalition of 38 Muslim organizations working with an interfaith coalition. Ending this genocide must be a human rights priority for the new administration.
To give the world a clear signal that the United States cares for human rights in the world, we recommend the following:
- Use sanctions, and the threat of sanctions against leaders and military owned businesses to achieve safe and secure return of Rohingyas to their ancestral homeland
- Accept the December 2019 House resolution asserting that the Rohingya people face genocide, with the State Department declaring it as such;
- Work with allies in ASEAN and European countries to pressure Burma to allow safe, dignified, and voluntary repatriation of Rohingya;
- The new ambassador to Burma should emphasize human rights;
- Burma’s GSP status should be cancelled within the first 100 days;
- Call a summit of world leaders on Rohingya refugees;
- Join the Gambian case against Burma at the International Court of Justice;
- Ask Bangladesh to grant refugee status to Rohingyas;
- Allow more Rohingya refugees into the US, especially widows and orphans, and ensure their resettlement as a special class;
- USAID funding should be conditioned on Bangladesh granting full educational opportunities to all Rohingya.
Islamophobia and Islamophobic policies
A genocide determination by the US State Department is a prime recommendation by Justice For All’s Burma Task Force, representing a coalition of 38 Muslim organizations working with an interfaith coalition. Ending this genocide must be a human rights priority for the new administration.
To give the world a clear signal that the United States cares for human rights in the world, we recommend the following:
- Use sanctions, and the threat of sanctions against leaders and military owned businesses to achieve safe and secure return of Rohingyas to their ancestral homeland
- Accept the December 2019 House resolution asserting that the Rohingya people face genocide, with the State Department declaring it as such;
- Work with allies in ASEAN and European countries to pressure Burma to allow safe, dignified, and voluntary repatriation of Rohingya;
- The new ambassador to Burma should emphasize human rights;
- Burma’s GSP status should be cancelled within the first 100 days;
- Call a summit of world leaders on Rohingya refugees;
- Join the Gambian case against Burma at the International Court of Justice;
- Ask Bangladesh to grant refugee status to Rohingyas;
- Allow more Rohingya refugees into the US, especially widows and orphans, and ensure their resettlement as a special class;
- USAID funding should be conditioned on Bangladesh granting full educational opportunities to all Rohingya.
Criminaal Justice and Police Reforms
A genocide determination by the US State Department is a prime recommendation by Justice For All’s Burma Task Force, representing a coalition of 38 Muslim organizations working with an interfaith coalition. Ending this genocide must be a human rights priority for the new administration.
To give the world a clear signal that the United States cares for human rights in the world, we recommend the following:
- Use sanctions, and the threat of sanctions against leaders and military owned businesses to achieve safe and secure return of Rohingyas to their ancestral homeland
- Accept the December 2019 House resolution asserting that the Rohingya people face genocide, with the State Department declaring it as such;
- Work with allies in ASEAN and European countries to pressure Burma to allow safe, dignified, and voluntary repatriation of Rohingya;
- The new ambassador to Burma should emphasize human rights;
- Burma’s GSP status should be cancelled within the first 100 days;
- Call a summit of world leaders on Rohingya refugees;
- Join the Gambian case against Burma at the International Court of Justice;
- Ask Bangladesh to grant refugee status to Rohingyas;
- Allow more Rohingya refugees into the US, especially widows and orphans, and ensure their resettlement as a special class;
- USAID funding should be conditioned on Bangladesh granting full educational opportunities to all Rohingya.
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