While President Obama told the country to “look forward, not backward” when it came to Bush’s torture program, the United Nations has taken a different route. Recently, the U.N. Human Rights Committee issued a report excoriating the United States for its human rights violations. It focuses on violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which the country is party.
The report mentions 25 human rights issues where the United States is failing. This piece will focus on a few of those issues – Guantanamo, NSA surveillance, accountability for Bush-era human rights violations, drone strikes, racism in the prison system, racial profiling, police violence and criminalization of the homeless.
Accountability for Bush-era crimes; torture
The U.N. committee expressed concerned with “the limited number of investigations, prosecutions and convictions of members of the Armed Forces and other agents of the U.S. government, including private contractors” for “unlawful killings in its international operations” and “torture” in CIA black sites during the Bush years. It welcomed the closing of the CIA black sites, but criticized the “meager number of criminal charges brought against low-level operatives” for abuses carried out under the CIA’s rendition, interrogation and detention program. The committee also found fault with the fact that many details of the CIA’s torture program “remain secret, thereby creating barriers to accountability and redress for victims.” ..Continued..This is a very large article and includes violations with respect to homeless folks.. by Adam Hudson
How is this posibile . Is it the age of the student ? Was the judge a woman or a man . Here we go . She must be good looking . Mostly all the female's prosecuted were not that attractive and kind or scary looking . How do the parents see this behavior $$$$$ . I'll bet the DA found out how much money shes worth . I just hope she gets on the national registry , then when she has no place to live she can move in with the childrens parents , and teach at their home if sorna and megans law will over see her talents , and they don't live near any parks, schools, play grounds, child centers, pocket parks, or librarys, and put on a gps tracking device on both of them . OR MAKE Him MARRY Her . EQUAL RIGHTS FOR MEN AS FOR WOMAN AS FOR BOYS AS FOR GIRLS . Lets shake up the laws Congress let them marry as young as 15 right across the country .
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