UN Comittee on Human Rights Blasts US Human Rights Record
The United Nations Committee on Human Rights issued a report on this day blasting the human rights record of the United States.
The UN Committee expressed “deep concern” about: (1) the U.S. “targeted killing” program; (2) the lack of progress in the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention center, where terrorist suspects are being held; (3) the “secrecy and lack of accountability” in policies of President George W. Bush’s administration; (4) race discrimination in the application of the death penalty in the U.S.; (5) the use of prolonged solitary confinement in U.S. prisons; and other violations of human rights.
The United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 15, 1948.
Read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights here
Learn more about Roosevelt’s role in the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Mary Ann Glendon, A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2001)