Article 4

 No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

 Article 5

 No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

 Article 6

 Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

 Article 7

 All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

 Article 13

 (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.

 (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

 Article 15

 (1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.

 (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

 Article 28

 Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

 This tacit acceptance by the Universal Declaration of human rights of natural law is evident in the pre-amble of the charter of the organization of African unity:
 “We the Heads of African and Malagasy States and Governments assembled in the city of Addis Ababa Ethiopia; convinced that it is the inalienable right of the people to control their own destiny. Conscious of that fact that freedom, equality and justice and dignity are essential objectives for the achievement of the legitimate aspiration of African peoples.

 Conscious of our responsibility to utilize the natural and human resources of our continent for the total advancement of our people in spheres of human endeavours;

  Inspired by a common determination to promote understanding among our people and to co-operation among our states in response to the aspirations of our peoples for brotherhood and solidarity in a larger unity transcending ethnic and national differences;

  Convinced that in order to translate this determination into dynamic force in the cause of human progress, conditions for peace and security must be established and maintained.

  Determination safeguard and consolidate the hard won independence as well as the sovereignty and territorial integrity of pour states and to resist neo-colonialism in all its forms;

   Dedicated to the general progress of Africa; persuaded that the charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human rights, to the principles which we reaffirm our adherence; provide us with a solid foundation for peaceful and positive cooperation among states.

  Desirous that all African states should henceforth unite so that the welfare and well being of their people can be assured;

   In accordance with their inherent rights many of our ancestors resisted their illegal and unjust captivity and attempted at every available opportunity to liberate themselves. In the Caribbean there were constant slave uprising and rebellions. This pattern was followed in the United States of America. Those heroic actions of our ancestors should be a constant theme of pride for us when we survey the heroism of our people’s struggles in the name of freedom from the bondage of Babylon. In addition to those rebellions, many of our ancestors fled the plantations and established Maroon communities of which Jamaica has the most famous. However, the pattern of Maroon communities was to be found throughout the region, from North America to the Caribbean to South America. The bold wars fought by Maroons to preserve their hard won independence from the colonial powers make it quite clear that many of our ancestors were not prepared to accept slavery. They were determined to stand up for their rights and resist the unjust ravages of legal slavery. In the Caribbean the tradition of resistance and rebellion was particularly rich from the Sam Sharpe rebellion, Tacky’s rebellion, the Haitian revolution to the Morant Bay rebellion and the Burmah Road, the African Diaspora have been provided with a wealth of heroes who were prepared to sacrifice their lives for the liberation of Africans in the West. From the arrival of the first slave ship on the guinea coast of Mother Africa to the present day, our people have continued the struggle of the children of Mother Africa for liberation and survival, at home and abroad.

   However despise the heroic struggle of our people we have been subjected as a race of people to barbaric plan acts of genocide. The mentality of our enemies who are intent on our destruction as a race of people is illustrated in the United States of America where after constant acts of genocide against the native peoples of North America and after the Seminole wars began transporting Seminole Indians out of Florida. These Seminoles had intermixed with escaped African slaves and the American imperialists were killing all black skinned Seminoles while transporting their fairer skinned brothers to the northern United States. In consequence of these acts of planned genocide, many of these black skinned Seminoles were forced to flee to the Bahamas, particularly in the islands of Andros, Grand Bahama and Exuma. This same devious mentality is seen with the so-called European discovery of Tasmania of which time the island was totally depopulated of the many dark skinned children of Mother Africa who lived there. Again this overall design of genocide of the African People is demonstrated in the so-called Toskege experiment in which some of our people in the southern United States were exposed to the ravages of untreated syphilis and allowed to suffer the painful latter days stage of the disease without treatment for pain and often without even knowing the nature of the disease that they were suffering from; this was in consequence of the fascist American experiment to discover the effect of untreated syphilis.

  This overall plan of genocide of African People is seen throughout the ghetto of North America, the Caribbean, Central and South America and Europe where old generations of African youth have become lost to ravages of drug addiction and the frustration of inner city hopelessness. It is no accident that many of our people have been forced to become drug addicts and prostitutes and it is rather part of an overall devious plan of genocide of Africans at home and abroad. This plan is being act out today in South Africa and indeed throughout the African continent. One is left with the impression that the grand design of Europe and the West is to ensure that the entire race of Africa is wiped off the face of the planet whilst the immense wealth of Mother Africa is ravaged and seized by these barbarous and murderous peoples. As children of Mother Africa we are daily fighting for our survival as a race of people. In our state of constant struggle we are confronted by the prophecy of Honourable Marcus Mosiah Garvey, when he stated that: - “We cannot allow a continuation of these crimes against our race. As four hundred million men, women and children, worthy of the existence genius of the divine Creator, we are determined to solve our own problem by redeeming our Motherland Africa from the clutches of alien exploiters and to find there a government, a nation of our own strong enough to lend support to the members of our race scattered all over the world and to compel the respect of the nations and races of the earth.

 The Negro now stands at the crossroads of human destiny. He is at the place where he must either step forwards or backwards. If he goes backwards he dies; if he goes forward it will be the hope of greater life… when the colonists of  America derived possession of the land they saw that a week aboriginal race was in their way.  What did they do?  They indication of what will happen  to the weaker people of the world in another two or three hundred years when the stronger races will have developed themselves to the position of complete  mastery of all things material. They will not then as they have not in the past, allow a weak and defenceless people stand in their way, especially if in doing sop they will endanger their happiness, their comfort and their pleasures.  These are the things that strike the thoughtful Negro as being dangerous and these are the things that cause us who make up the U.N.I.A.  to be fighting tenaciously for the purpose of building up a strong Negro race, so as to make it  impossible for us to be  exterminated in the future to make room for the stronger race even as the North American Indian has been exterminated to make room for the great  White Men on this North American Continent.”

  That we as a people are confronted with genocide is beyond dispute. The Ethiopian African Black International Congress changes and indicts the Government of Europe and the United State of America and their puppet neo-colonial region throughout the Caribbean with having violated in the most profane manner all of the inherent rights of a man as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This has been tantamount to flagrant contravention and punishment of the crime of genocide. In addition our people globally have been subjected to wanton acts of economics genocide. Those whom Rastafari would accuse of genocide have conducted acts of deliberately inflicting on the African People at Home and abroad in whole or in part in direct violation of Article 2 Section 3 of the Genocide Convention.

 This overall scheme of genocide can be seen in all avenues of life including education, employment, housing, hospital, facilities, insurance, financial and lending institutions. As the organization of Afro-American Unity before us : “we cite killings by the police, killings by incited gangs, killings by the Ku Klux Klan, and killings by military and Para-military colonial forces in violation of Article 2 Section 1 of the Genocide Convention, which unequivocally makes such actions a crime under International Law.

 Under the provisions of Article 3 Section A,B,C and D of the Genocide Convention, which declares that genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide and complicity in genocide are punishable in accordance with Article 5-10 of the Convention.”

 The Ethiopian Africa Black International Congress unequivocally condemn acts of Genocide against the African people at home and abroad and calls for adequate reparations to be made to the children of Mother Africa. If these reparations are not given willingly by the developed capitalist nations of the west then all necessary legal actions must be taken against them to ensure that adequate compensation is made. Rastafari doctrine dictates Repatriation to the blessed shares of Mother Africa.

 However this must be done in an orderly fashion and in such a way so as not to disrupt the social order of the African community. There must be established the necessary infrastructure so that the returning children of the Diaspora do not become a burden but rather an asset to the development of the African nations. For Rastafari, Reparation is an essential component of repatriation in 7, 9, or 13 miles of Black Star Line Redemption.

 The Ethiopia African Black International Congress calls for a 4 point plan of action:

 The first component of reparations is monetary compensation to each child of Mother Africa. Every African at home and abroad must be compensated. In 1834 Queen Victoria granted £ 120, 000, 000 pounds to the immoral slave masters in the British colonies. His Excellence King Emmanuel has demanded of the west that this some be paid by the British West Indies. In this regard His Excellency King Emmanuel has insisted that payments be made in sterling at the 1834 value and not the highly devalued 1991 currency.

 The sum of £ 20, 736, 000, 000 in the opinion of His Excellency King Emmanuel should be paid to African at home and abroad. This amount is to compensate for the International Underdevelopment of Mother Africa.

 A further punitive amount of £ 43, 900, 000, 000 should be paid for the constant sabotaging of the noble aspiration and ideals of Mother Africa. The component of Reparation could be dealt with by giving this sum to each African at home and abroad and a like amount should be invested in an international corporation modelled on the Black star Shipping Co. Ltd. Of His Excellency The Hon. Marcus Mosiah Garvey.

 A crucial component of Reparations in the establishment of 7, 9 or 13 miles of Black Star Line Shipping. This would involve a fleet of seaworthy vessels along with competent crew and adequate operating expenses. This is essential fore orderly Reparation and in order to create a line of trade with Mother Africa and to offset western domination of world economies and established trading patterns – the sum of £ 100, 000, 000 would be necessary in order to establish this essential aspect of Reparations.

 Another critical component of Reparations would take the form of compensation for all African Governments in the amount of £ 800, 000, 000 to offset balance of payments problems, structural economic deficiencies and to offset Western domination of trade and World Bank oppression.

 The underdevelopment of Africa by Europe must be reversed and this should be redressed by the forgiving of all African external debt by Western nations and multinational Corporation Banks.

 The Repatriation of children of the Diaspora to mother Africa of the necessity entails the building of the African nation. Repatriation must take the form of an orderly return in such a manner that it will enhance the African nation building process. Mother Africa cannot afford a Helter Skelter chaotic mad rush. Repatriation must be conducted in an orderly fashion so as to avoid any social disruption. The age long dream of African patriots has been the establishment of a united free and Independent United States of African nation wealth. The charter of the organization of African unity is a blue print for the establishment of an African nation: United we stand and divided we fall.

 The solution for the current dilemma confronting Africans at home and abroad is directly related to the orderly repatriation of exiles who wish to return to Mother Africa; the building of an African economy in which the wealth and resources of Mother Africa are controlled by her children and the establishment of a united and free African Nation.

 There are numerous problems that are hampering existing Repatriation efforts. The first problem is what could be referred to as “The National Identity Crisis” many Africans exiled in the west have never accepted Colonial and Neo-colonial designations. Rather these patriots have wholeheartedly adopted the concepts of African nationality inspired by His Excellency the Honourable Marcus Mosiah Garvey.

 Many brothers and sisters exiled in the west have rejected Colonial and Neo-Colonial doors of exit and entry. There is a very real need to break down the artificial national impediments to orderly Repatriation. Africans should not need visas and passports to return to Mother Africa, as our ancestors were kidnapped and forcibly brought in the holds of slave ships, into brutal slavery without passports or visas. The seal of authorization for Repatriation to Mother Africa. Rastafari do not accept the pseudo nationalities of the West that have been forced upon our people, nor do we recognize Jamaican, Bahamian, Trinidadian, Mexican, Brazilian or other such neo-colonial designations and nationalities.

 The Ethiopia Africa Black International Congress views the children of the Diaspora as citizens of Mother Africa and totally reject neo-colonialism and all its trappings. In this regard it is essential that diplomatic recognition be accorded to the Servants of His Excellency King Emmanuel to ensure that the orderly return out of Babylon of the Royal Sons and Daughter of Mother Africa lost in the hopelessness of the Diaspora.

 Land is the basis of all independence and should be set aside for the resettlement of our people in Mother Africa. His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I later granted land to Rastafari in  the West in Ethiopia for the purpose of Repatriation. This magnanimous action should be respected by the present administration of Ethiopia and should in fact be emulated across the continent in order to establish real and meaningful Repatriation.

 In consequence of the foregoing the Ethiopia Africa Black International Congress hereby petitions the Organization of African Unity (now Africa Union) as follows:

 For the Organization of African Unity to stimulate collective and unified actions to the issue of Reparations. With one voice hammer home demands for Reparation so that our enemies realize that in this issue we are one accord.

 For the coordination of organized legal actions for reparations in a number of jurisdictions. The Ethiopia Africa Black International Congress is presently commencing such legal actions in Jamaica as an issue of Reparation but sees the need for a global and coordinated legal strategy and plan of action. This would entail an International team of attorneys to take our battles into court. It is purposed legal actions be commenced in USA, England, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Denmark, Brazil, Jamaica, Bahamas, Dominica, Sweden, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Netherlands.

 For the establishment of a program of positivity on the issue of Reparation. In the establishment of such a program the Ethiopia Africa Black International Congress has the following objectives.

 Movement of Jah people out of Babylon. In order for the resettlement of the children of the diaspora on the blessed banks of the river Niger each to his own vine and fig tree. Land is essential and must be set aside as an essential element of orderly Repatriation.

 In respect of the eminent return of Africans exiled in the West no visa or Passport should be necessary and no money should be required to ensure transportation across the Middle Passage, when our ancestors were transplanted into the West they did not have any Passport, Visas, or money to ensure passage, thus it must be with our return. All such requirement should be waived and our people allowed returning to Mother Africa as a free man, woman or child by birthright.

 Diplomatic status to be granted to servants and officers of the Ethiopia Africa Black International Congress to ensure that Repatriation to Mother Africa is conducted in an orderly fashion. This is essential as existing protocol ensures that dealing with the leadership of African States is conducted by agents and or servants of Neo-Colonial Caribbean States who appear to be opposed to the issue of Repatriation and who in the past have attempted to stifle the hopes and aspiration of African children of the Diaspora.

 For the provision of economic assistance in the form of shipping and or transportation to Mother Africa from the West for those who wish to return from exile.