Civil Society Groups Working Against the UN Agenda Items?

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) and University of California Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender have published a report enlisting 74 groups that in some way contribute to Islamophobia and promote a feeling of hatred toward Islam and Muslims. According the report’s author: “The hate that these groups are funding and inciting is having real consequences like attacks on mosques all over the country and new laws discriminating against Muslims in America.”

Ironically enough, what is done by the mentioned groups is against the human rights law, humanitarian law, the goals of the United Nations and the human rights council.

Fighting against “racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance” , is one of the main 10 agenda items discussed in all of the UN Human Rights Council regular sessions. That is, a huge amount of time and energy is spent regularly by the Human Rights Council staff, the delegates of the member states and the representatives of the civil society to address xenophobia, its root causes and find ways to deal with any form of expression of hatred toward any religious or racial groups.

International documents published by the United Nations such as “the Universal Declaration of Human Rights”, “the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights”, “the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights”, “International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination”, “International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families”, “2001 Durban Declaration and Programme of Action”, “2009 Durban Outcome Document Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic Religious and Linguistic Minorities”, “UNESCO Declaration on Race and Racial Prejudice”, “the additional protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime, concerning the criminalization of acts of a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems” condemn xenophobia which is defined as “hostility against non-natives in a given population.”
Various UN mechanisms are trying to combat Xenophobia. The Human Rights Council special procedures has mandated a special rapporteur “on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance” to address the issue worldwide. Also, more than 40 UN resolutions have been adopted so far, encouraging elimination of xenophobia and other forms of intolerance . There are hundreds of statements and reports published in the Human Rights Council to prohibit xenophobic discriminations, such as the recent report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance . Other UN mechanisms such as the UPR and the treaty bodies have been also trying to discourage and prevent manifestations of xenophobia.

Despite the unanimous attempts made by the United Nations to limit cases of xenophobia, it seems as if the mentioned groups are spending considerable amounts of money, countering all the UN efforts, promoting agenda against the goals being followed by the UN and all the related bodies.

. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/20/islamophobia-funding-cair-berkeley-report
. http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/10session/ProvAgenda10session.pdf
. http://www.unesco.org/most/migration/imrdx.pdf
. http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/sdpage_e.aspx?m=92&t=11
. http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?s=99
. https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G16/097/20/PDF/G1609720.pdf?OpenElement