Failed: 8th Annual Human Rights Youth Summit

It's official, the 8th Youth for Human Rights Summit was held at Hotel President Wilson, Geneva, 26 Aug, 2011.  YHRI failed, among other things, to get into United Nations facilities to held their summit.  For those who don't know, it's a big failure for them.  For those who don't know, they never announced the date and venue in public in advance - not in their website nor their Facebook page.  Does that get you thinking about what sort of organization are they?

There were 250 attendees they said.  For YHRI's friends in Nepal, Barbados, Haiti, Chiapas, please take note.  How much money they wasted on long-haul travel, hotels, food?  All for talking?  You should be really grateful that they give you some "The Way to Happiness" booklets to your poor schools and homeless disaster victims.  And a few pencils too?

There were 30 youth delegates from 30 countries.  Many of them are familiar faces, die hard Scientologists, 2nd generation Scientolgists.  Some of them aren't that young.  Because in many countries, you just can't con non-Scientologists into attending.

I bet these guys pay their own expenses as a service to the church.  Last time Mary Shutterworth can only raise a few hundred dollars on Facebook, out of the target of $10,000.  I'm certain most of them have to find their sponsors.  Because someone failed to return the next year because of money.

For the rest, you have to attend a national contest of essays.  The one winner got picked to attend.  They may even dupe some national organizations to pay for it.  Of course, the local Church of Scientology may pay for somebody to fill the seats, if they can't find somebody rich to write off the expenses.

To appreciate the falseness of it, some Vietnamese Scientologists in Germany got to represent Vietnam and speak.  At least they put Vietnamese Community on their badge instead of Vietnam.

The five Human Rights Hero Awards are jokes.  The governor of Chiapas, Mexico got one.  He didn't turn it down.  Nobody bothers as people of the poorest Mexico state probably won't hear about these things.  They may hear some award about human rights.  An official likes the idea of a Geneva vacation and so he went.  He may not even tell his boss the truth.  The expenses will be most likely be on the state govt budget, the poorest state of Mexico.  That's how it works.

Martin Ponce Rubio, Territorial Director of Jalalpa, Mexico is also known as a gang interventionist.  Who knows what Jalalpa is.  Anyway, a Geneva weekend is hard to resist, and you won't bother to check what is YHRI.

Ms. Joanne Tawfilis, Founding Executive Director of the Art Miles Mural Project, will certainly never have anything to do with YHRI again.  I'll be making sure of it.  That's the problem.  Most of these people will not have anything to do with it once they found out the link to Scientology.  And find out how stupid they look when everybody else knows.

The rest are worthless to mention Scientologists.  But one that stands out is our Dustin McGahee, for dreaming up Human Rights walks, that few people heard of it and few attended except for those holding the banners.  I think that's to compensate him for looking like an idiot in his music videos made for YHRI.

Last year, the high profile delegates are Taiwanese, and a few of them.  This year, the spotlight is on Mexico, Pakistan and India.  There are no mention of the South Asian countries because perhaps the representatives just want free vacations and not to be known.  Or the situation is rather delicate, as they are closet Scientologists, or conned into it.

Co-sponsors are mostly on paper only and few would reject it.  The exception is Ariel Foundation International, who is proud to co-sponsor it, and who have no money and no volunteers to make a decent website.  Associated to NOI?

The Permanent Mission of Haiti in UN will not reject to co-sponsor it, even if they want to.  The country allows VM to operate just like Japan.  With them alone they could have gotten YHRI into UN facilities to hold their summit.  They probably didn't even send anybody.  How they can justify a Swiss vacation when they countrymen ...

Village Suisse NGO didn't appear on their event promotion any more, nor sent speakers, nor taking pictures.  But it's still reported as a co-sponsor.  For this reason, the revoke Village Suisse NGO status still stands, even though we guess that they don't want to have anything to do with scilons any more.

The nearest they got to the UN is the fountain in front of the Plaza of Nations.  They all got inside and got wet.