Opinion: The World Forum is incapable of protecting human rights.
May 15, 2024
Yumi Akaiko, Minister of Parliament (RU)
You may remember a day in May of last year when, in the midst of one of many exchanges between Valkyria and other nations with respect to the former’s insistence on roleplaying as a narco-state by attempting to pressure other nations into legalizing cannabis and other prohibited psychoactive substances, Valkyria’s official ambassador to the Imperial State of Ryccia had this to say:
Religious individuals living under continual persecution by the Fourth Republic of Vrigny, who is actively committing crimes against humanity under the Petrovka Statute by imprisoning individuals for holding religious beliefs, would certainly appreciate some of this rhetoric by Valkyria in defense of the religious rights that it seemingly values. But what, you may ask, did this founding state of the World Forum have to say in response to a heinous provision that clearly violates the Charter of the World Forum and infringes on a basic, longstanding, foundational right of all people?
Nothing.
Prime Minister Steffan Bennett deliberately avoided condemning the public, unapologetic commission of crimes against humanity by the Fourth Republic of Vrigny. But perhaps the Federal Republic of Gianatla, the very author of the World Forum resolution that introduced the mandatory recognition by World Forum member states of the 1956 Declaration of Human Rights (another document that Vrigny is in clear breach of) as a jus cogens component of international law, will be more willing to take action against derogation of its own resolution?
Human rights are evidently not, in fact, universal, at least in the blind eyes that Gianatla is currently turning towards Vrigny’s religious population.
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The World Forum’s proponents are a collective joke. The organization itself is a hollow charade that cannot maintain peace, cannot defend international stability, and cannot protect even the most fundamental of human rights. Despite what many abroad and even some Pelinese politicians may believe, this is not an unfortunate failure on the part of the World Forum nor is it an unintentional or undesirable outcome on the part of its architects. The World Forum does not exist to defend or maintain any of the aforementioned things; as has been so clearly illustrated by two if its founding nations, it exists to further the self-serving interests of those who would rather use it and its enforcement powers to enact the social policies of their governments abroad and ensure their own geopolitical primacy while gleefully throwing innocents who depend on the more “undesirable” of the human rights into the hot spring.
Can the World Forum be saved from its present state by Pelinese or other intervention made with the goal of pushing it towards its nominal purpose? Perhaps. But existing internationalist organizations and human rights guardians like the World Forum are, at the present moment, as much of an unreliable and even hostile party as the Restorationists have always stated them to be, and recent statements regarding Pelinai’s complaint to the International Court have only further demonstrated this assertion to be true. It would be extremely dangerous to rely on such organizations as the World Forum to afford even the smallest measure of protection to the Pelinese people, especially in the short term.
But what is to be done instead? It is of the utmost importance that Pelinai leverage the full powers of the Ministry of Economics and state-owned enterprises to facilitate the extension its economic and industrial bases, allowing it to meet the growing technological needs of the modern Pelinese military while simultaneously also providing for the continued prosperity of the national populace. It is also necessary to strengthen existing economic, military, and other agreements between Pelinai and other states, as well as seek new ones where it is appropriate and beneficial. Wherever possible, Pelinai must continue to sharpen the economic and military power necessary to retain its governmental independence and ensure the continued freedom of the Pelinese people.
The Pelinese know from experience that their freedoms and safety are gained not from votes and petitions, or from decisions handed down by foreign powers and international organizations, but from the spilled blood of those that would deny them those things. The empty promises of the World Forum and similar organizations will not change that, and the Pelinese must be ready and willing to retain their rights and freedoms themselves.