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United States Presents Periodic Reports to Human Rights Committee, Receives Critical Response

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2006

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References

1 The U.S. report is available at <http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrc/hrcs87.htm.

2 Opening Statement of Mathew Waxman, Head of the U.S. Delegation (July 17, 2006), at <http://www.state.gov/s/p/rem/69126.htm.

3 126 S.Ct. 2749 (2006).

4 543 U.S. 551 (2005).

5 536 U.S. 304 (2002).

6 539 U.S. 558 (2003).

7 At <http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrc/hrcs87.htm; see U.N. Rights Panel Calk for U.S. to End Secret Imprisonment, N.Y. Times, July 29, 2006, at A4; End of Secret Detention Urged, Wash. Post, July 29, 2006, at A14; Prisoners and Human Rights (editorial), N.Y. Times, July 31, 2006, at A20.

8 Statement by United States Mission to the United Nations on Behalf of the U.S. Delegation to the U.N. Human Rights Committee (July 28, 2006), at <http://www.us-mission.ch/Press2006/0728ICCPR.html.

9 Human Rights Committee, Meeting of States Parties—25th Meeting of States Parties to the ICCPR (Sept. 7, 2006), at<http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrc/elections.htm; UN press Release, Meeting of States Parties to Covenant on Civil, Political Rights Elects Nine Members of Human Rights Committee (Sept. 7, 2006), at <http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2006/hr4903.doc.htm.