It's no wonder that the United States was ousted from the United Nations human rights commission
William Schulz
There are about 230,000 people in prison without trial in China, and there are hundreds of people being tortured in (Chinese-ruled) Tibet. What is certainly true is that there's no evidence that the trade ties have resulted in a significant improvement in China.
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We have documented the use of torture and mistreatment, widespread throughout the world. We have documented that the U.S. Government is a leading purveyor and practitioner of the odious human rights violation.
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Amnesty International calls today on foreign governments to uphold their obligations under international law by investigating all senior U.S. Officials involved in the torture scandal.
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Any nation that is party to the Geneva Conventions.. Is obligated under international law to investigate those who are alleged to be involved with the formulation of a policy of torture or with its carrying out
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Untie the hands of state and federal judges and prosecutors,.. Give them options other than turning the courts into assembly lines that mass produce mandatory life-without-parole sentences for children.
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We ask the Justice Department and the INS to abide by its own standards and by international human rights standards in the treatment of these detainees,.. To treat detainees inhumanely is to risk breeding hostility and anger against us where before there may have been none.
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The sexual abuse of women inmates is torture, plain and simple. Shackling and medical neglect of women in prison constitute cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
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The U.S. Is maintaining an archipelago of prisons around the world, many of them secret prisons, into which people are being literally disappeared, held in indefinite, incommunicado detention without access to lawyers or a judicial system or to their families
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And in some cases, at least, we know they are being mistreated, abused, tortured and even killed.
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