Resources
Death Penalty & Criminal Punishment
Criminal Punishment
Second & Third Periodic Report U.S. to UN Committee on Human Rights ICCPR 2005
Death Penalty NACDL Statement to Committee (2006)
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Statement to HRC
Human Rights Watch Submission to the Committee Against Torture 2005
US Supreme Court decision on Child Offenders Doesn’t Cleanse Death Penalty System
Tookie Williams Execution Underscores Moral Hypocrisy of Death Penalty System in the U.S.
Torture By the United States: World Organization for Human Rights USA
Torture, Arbitrary Detention and other Major Human Rights Abuses by the United States
Human Rights Watch Memorandum on US Criminal Punishment practices
HRW Submission to Committee Against Torture
US Responds to Committee on Torture (2006)
Racial Discrimination
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
Human Rights and Segregation of Public Schools in the US
Gender-Related Dimensions of Racial Discrimination
U.S. reservations, declarations, and understandings, ICERD
Initial Report of the United States of America to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (2000)
Migrant & Refugee Resources
Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Immigrants 2007
Briefing Materials submitted to Rapporteur – Detention and Deportation Working Group
Call to Action Migrants Day 2006
Border Network for Human Rights
World Refugee Day June 20, 2007
List of Concerns for the Review of US Second and Third Periodic Report 2006
USAID Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons Policy
The Concept of Internal Displacement
International Migration Facts & Figures
Forced Migration Review
Civil & Political Rights
Concluding U.S. Compliance with International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (2006)
Human, Civil and Political Rights
Treaty Materials
Shadow Reports: Documenting US Failure to Comply with Human Rights Treaties
Human Rights and Segregation of Public Schools in the US
Human Rights at Home
Memo to UN Committee Against Torture
This treaty was ratified by the United States in 1992, making it legally binding:
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
First Periodic Report US to the UN Committee on Human Rights Concerning ICCPR 1994
Concluding Observations Human Rights Committee on First US Report to the Committee (1995)
Second & Third Periodic Report U.S. to UN Committee on Human Rights ICCPR 2005
Full Shadow Report (2006)
Why Shadow Reporting 2007
The Human Rights Committee Regarding Post 9-11 Practices of the United States of America
Economic Rights
Integrating Macro Economic Strategies and Human Rights
Impacts of Supreme Court Takings on the Poor
Affordable Housing: A Legal Rights, Not Charity
Homelessness in the US and the Human Right to Housing
Robin Hood in Reverse
From poverty to Opportunity
Recursos en Español
HR 4437 vs. La Convención (Criminaliza el estado de indocumentado)
En el Día Internacional del Migrante (2006)
El incumplimiento de los Estados Unidos con los Normas Universales de los Derechos Humanos
Inmigrantes: con derecho a la protección de sus derechos humanos
Normas Internacionales: Estatuto de las Naciones Unidas
Reportaje Sobre Abusos Cometidos Durante Katrina al Comite de Naciones Unidas
Immigration
Immigration: UN Guide
Immigrants: Entitled to Human Rights Protection
Status of Human and Civil Rights at US-Mexico Border (2004)
Immigration: International Standards
Militarization on the Border (2006)
Questions to the U.S. Government on behalf of U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture (2005)
US Responds to Committee on Torture (2006)