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UN Human Rights Officials Berate U.S. Human Rights Policies and Practices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

John R. Crook*
Affiliation:
General International and U.S. Foreign Relations Law

Abstract

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Type
Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 by The American Society of International Law

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References

1 Lynch, Colum U.S. Policies Criticized by U.N. Rights Watchdog, Wash. Post, June 25, 2009, at A11.Google Scholar

2 Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (June 25, 2009), at http://www.un.org.au/files/files/2009-06-26Torture%20DayHC%20final.pdf.Google Scholar

3 Alston, Philip Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Mission to the United States of America, Addendum, UN doc. A/HRC/1 l/2/Add.5 (May 28, 2009), at http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/llsession/A.HRC.l 1.2.Add.5.pdf.Google Scholar

4 Id. at 3.

5 Id.

6 Id. at 7-8.

7 Id. at 8-10.

8 Id. at 10-11.

9 Id. at 11-12.

10 Id. at 13-14.

11 Id. at 19-21.

12 Id. at 20.

13 Id. at 21.

14 Id. at 24.

15 Id. at 24-26.

16 Id. at 28.

17 Id. at 28-30.

18 Id. at 31-32.

19 Id. at 30-31.

20 UN Doc. CERD/C/USA/6 (Oct. 24, 2007).

22 See US Human Rights Network, U.S. NGO Responses to the2007 U.S. Combined Periodic Reports to the International Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, at http://www.ushrnetwork.org/files/ushrn/images/linkfiles/CERD/0_Executive%20Summary.pdf.Google Scholar

23 Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: United States of America, UN Doc. CERD/C/USA/CO/6 (May 8,2008), at http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cerd/cerds72.htm.

24 Id., para. 30.