The top ten recipients slated to receive US foreign assistance in 2014
all practice torture and are responsible for major human rights abuses,
according to Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other major
human rights organizations.
The violators and degree of aid they are expected to receive are: 1.
Israel – $3.1bn, 2. Afghanistan – $2.2bn, 3. Egypt – $1.6bn, 4. Pakistan
– $1.2bn, 5. Nigeria – $693m, 6. Jordan – $671m, 7. Iraq – $573m, 8.
Kenya – $564m, 9. Tanzania – $553m, 10. Uganda -$456m
Each of the listed countries are accused of torturing people in the
last year, and at least half are reported to be doing so on a massive
scale.
Financial support for such governments could violate existing US law
mandating that little or no funding be granted to a country that
“engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally
recognized human rights, including torture.”
The United States remains a signatory of the United Nations
Convention against Torture, ratified in 1994. That the top ten
recipients of US assistance all practice torture calls into serious
question the Obama administration’s overall stance on and understanding
of fundamental human rights.
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