UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE
EIGHTY-SEVENTH SESSION
REPORT ON THE UNITED STATES’ COMPLIANCE WITH THE
INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. ICCPR Article 1, Self-Determination and Native Americans
T. Yvette Soutiere, with contributions by Julie Fishel, Western Shoshone Defense
Project, and Lucy Simpson, Indian Law Resource Center.
2. U.S. Exceptionalism and Lack of Implementation
Penny Venetis, Clinical Professor of Law and Clinical Scholar, Co-Director
Constitutional Litigation Clinic, Rutgers School of Law – Newark with the assistance of
Cynthia Soohoo and Connie de la Vega.
Submitted on behalf of: Human Rights Advocates
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, D.C.
Penal Reform International
UN Working Group of the National Lawyers Guild’s International Committee
Women’s Institute for Leadership Development for Human Rights
3. Lack of Access to the Courts to Enforce Civil Rights in the United States
National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, New York, NY
Center for Law and Education
Center for Public Representation of Northampton MA
Equal Justice Society, San Francisco, CA
Human Rights Advocates
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Legal Momentum
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
National Health Law Program
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church
Workplace Fairness
Individuals (organizational affiliation for identification only)

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Jamie D. Brooks
National Health Law Program
Cynthia Soohoo
Human Rights Institute
Columbia Law School

4. Death Penalty
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Legal Defense Fund, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Human Rights Advocates and the Frank C. Newman International Human Rights Law
Clinic
Northwestern Law School Center for International Human Rights
Murder Victims Families for Human Rights
Southern Center for Human Rights
Death Penalty Focus
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
United Methodist Church, General Board of Church and Society
The StandDown Texas Project
5. Women’s Human Rights under the ICCPR
Human Rights Advocates International (New York)
International Gender Organization
International Women’s Human Rights Law Clinic; Queens College, City University of
New York
International Women’s Rights Action Watch
Human Rights Center, University of Minnesota
Legal Momentum
MASSCEDAW and Prof. Martha Davis, Northeastern University College of Law
National Organization for Women Foundation
National Council of Women’s Organizations
6. Domestic Workers’ Rights in the United States
Andolan organizing south Asian workers
CASA of Maryland
Domestic Workers United
Global Rights
University of North Carolina School of Law Human Rights Policy Clinic
Stefani Bonato
McKenna Coll

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Eric Tars
7. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Report
Coordinated by Global Rights with contributions from the UCLA Williams Institute.
Endorsed by: Amnesty International USA,
The Gender Public Advocacy Coalition,
Immigration Equality
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC)
Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc.,
National Center for Lesbian Rights
Sylvia Rivera Law Project.
8. Conditions and Conduct in the California Criminal Justice System: A Report on
U.S. Government Compliance with the United Nations ICCPR
Women’s Institute for Leadership Development for Human Rights
Justice Now
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
Transgender Gender Variant and Intersex Justice Project
National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR)
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
California Prison Focus
Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
Penal Reform International
9. Criminalization of Dissent in the United States: A Shadow Report on the United
States’ Obligations under Articles 19 and 21 of the ICCPR
Prepared by Merrilyn Onisko with pleadings from NLG Mass Defense Committee and
Partnership for Civil Justice
Submitted on behalf of:

National Lawyers Guild
International Association of Democratic

10. Political Prisoners in the United States
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
11. Propaganda for War
The International Women’s Human Rights Law Clinic of the City University of New
York School of Law
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom – United States Section
Center for Constitutional Rights
Madre

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International Federation for Human Rights
Women’s Environment and Development Organization
National Lawyers Guild
American Humanist Association
12. Self-determination, minority rights and treatment of those deprived of liberty
Judge Claudia Morcom for the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute and the International
Association of Democratic Lawyers.
13. Problems with United States Compliance with the ICCPR – Violations of the
Rights of Aliens
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
Halleland Lewis Nilan & Johnson
National Employment Law Project;
Sarah Paoletti, Practitioner-in-Residence, Washington College of Law at American
University
Equal Justice Center – Texas
Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute
Center for Constitutional Rights
Organizations
American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME
American Rights at Work
Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation (CA)
Center on Policy Initiatives (CA)
Central Texas Immigrant Workers' Rights Center (TX)
Chicago Workers' Collaborative(IL)
Comite de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agricolas (CATA) (NJ)
Community Justice Project (PA)
Denver Area Labor Federation (CO)
El Centro, Inc. (KS)
Employment Law Center
Farmworker Justice Fund
Farmworker Legal Services of New York, Inc. (NY)
Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center (FL)
Friends of Farmworkers, Inc. (PA)
Front Range Economic Strategy Center (CO)
Greater Boston Legal Services (MA)
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota (MN)
Program in International Human Rights Law, Indiana University School of Law at
Indianapolis (IN)
Interfaith Worker Justice

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Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance (KIWA) (CA)
La Raza Centro Legal (CA)
Labor and Employment Committee, National Lawyers Guild
Lahore Foundation, Inc. (MD)
Midwest Coalition for Human Rights
Mississippi Poultry Workers' Center (MS)
National Council of La Raza
National Day Labor Organizing Network (NDLON)
National Employment Lawyers’ Association
National Immigration Law Center
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Northwest Worker Justice Project (OR)
Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition (PA)
Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN)
Public Justice Center (MD)
Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights
Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
The Latin American Defense Organization (LADO) (IL)
Transnational Workers Rights Clinic of the University of Texas Law School (TX)
Tompkins County (NY) Immigrant Rights Center
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) International Labor
Rights Fund
Washington Defender Association's Immigration Project (WA)
Workers' Rights Law Center of New York, Inc (NY)
14. Report on Juvenile Criminal Sentences, the Right to Vote, the Right to Life on
the Border and Freedom of Association in the U.S.
Human Rights Advocates
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
National Employment Law Project
15. In the Shadows of the War on Terror: Persistent Police Brutality and Abuse in
the United States
American Friends Service Committee, Criminal Justice Program, Philadelphia, PA
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, San Francisco, CA
Children and Family Justice Center, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern University
School of Law, Chicago, IL
Communities United Against Police Brutality, Minneapolis, MN
DRUM (Desis Rising up and Moving), New York City, New York
Jericho
Justice First, LLP, Oakland, CA
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, San Francisco, CA
Pacific Juvenile Defender Center,
RAWAN (Radical Arab Women’s Activist Network)

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US Human Rights Network (representing 170 organizations and individuals
from across the country working on such fundamental human rights issues as criminal
justice, discrimination, health care, immigration, housing, labor, and education)
Individuals (Organizational Affiliation Listed for Identification Only)
Kathie Cheng, October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the
Criminalization of a Generation
Geri Lynn Green, Esq., San Francisco, CA
Nicholas Heyward, Sr., father of Nicholas Heyward, Jr. (killed by NYPD
September 1994), Parents Against Police Brutality, October 22 Coalition to Stop
Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation
Juanita Young, mother of Malcolm Ferguson (killed by NYPD March 2000),
Parents Against Police Brutality, October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality,
Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation, Justice Committee
16. Hurricane Katrina and Violations of ICCPR Articles 6 and 26
Prepared by Jean Carmalt.
Submitted on behalf of the U.S. Human Rights Network
17. Update on issue related to Articles 2 and 26 concerning facts about Katrina
Rev. Daniel Buford for the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
International Association of Democratic Lawyers
Peoples Institute
Allen Temple
18. Homelessness and United States Compliance with the ICCPR
National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
Maria Foscarinis, Executive Director
Tulin Ozdeger, Civil Rights Staff Attorney
Naomi Stern, Domestic Violence Staff Attorney
Joy Moses, Children’s Staff Attorney
Assistance was also provided by David Hubb, a Partner at DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary
US LLP.
19. Alternative Report on Force Drugging, Forced Electroshock and Mental Health
Screening of Children
Prepared by Tina Minkowitz and Al Galves
Assisted by Celia Brown, Myra Kovary and Eve Remba.

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Submitted on behalf of:

New York Organization For Human Rights and Against
Psychiatric Assault
Mind Freedom International; Law Project for Psychiatric
Rights

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20. Domestic Criminal Justice Issues and the ICCPR
The Criminal Justice Policy Foundation
Open Society Policy Center
Penal Reform International
The Sentencing Project
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law
21. Violations of Article 25: On issues related to the right to vote and participate in
public affairs
Asian American Justice Center
Jamie D. Brooks, Esq.
National Health Law Program
Global Rights
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
The Sentencing Project

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