what is the status of America with regards to upholding human rights laws?

Question

What improvements or changes in human rights policies , if any have the United States implemented since the Human Rights Committee (charged with enforcing the ICCPR) released it's report in 2006 admonishing America for gross violations of human rights?

if possible please provide links to credible info. thanx a lot.

Answer 1

I could list them for days. Could you send me an email with the link to that report?

A recent example from Tampa, FL, where the homeless where allowed to set up a tent city on an empty lot owned by a homeless shelter. The city then gave the homeless an ultimatum of 1 week to not be homeless, which is impossible. Then because they were still homeless, the cops were ordered (just doing their jobs) to tear down and destroy the tents, which they did with box cutters (There not just on planes anymore). You find plenty of footage on www.foxnews.com search regional things for Tampa.

The legal system is a joke. Unless you have money you are screwed. This is a constitutional issue. Leaving all other BS aside, the bottom line is that within the constitution and amendments are guidelines for the treatment of humans, which are disregarded these days. The ACLU is a farce, they are only interested in high profile cases that bring attention to themselves and get them grant money. There is no infrastructure in place to insure that the constitutional rights of the average American are protected. Have you ever had to deal with a public defender? They are not interested in the rights of the people they protect. There are some exceptions to the rule, but the way the legal system works is based on a conflict of interests from the first point on.

The prosecutor has lunch with the defender, they hash out a deal. The prosecution looks good with a guilty verdict, the defender looks good with a lesser sentence, and the defendant gets screwed. Most people aren't bright enough to read and understand law, but just in case there are states like Florida that do not allow access to legal libraries, unless you want to give up your public defender and defend yourself. So the message is the lawyer will tell you everything you need to know.
They keep people locked up until they plea, they keep people locked up for months without relinquishing what evidence is against them.

I know of true happenings where people would have been found not guilty but took a plea because they were locked up so long. Others take pleas just because they can't make unreasonable bail and it would be less time to do the sentence then it would be to fight it, because if you win it doesn't matter anyway, they aren't going to give you anything for being innocent, so it is less time to be guilty.

Don’t get me going on the civil aspect of law. Corporate lobbies have designed a system that makes them immune to killing people. A company can make a drastic mistake, and kill hundreds or thousands of people, and all they get is a fine. They call it “The Corporate Vail”. What that means is a business is like an imaginary person. If the imaginary person makes a mistake you just let it die and make another. Corporate America gets away with murder every single day, kids, adults, seniors, there are no acceptations to the choices they make that choose money over people, few have succeeded in bringing them to justice.

The unfortunate fact is that this happens mostly to lower income folks who make a bad decision because they are in a bad situation. If we cleaned up human rights, and started treating humans right, those situations that cause the situations wouldn't be a situation.

Answer 2

America ranks the #1 the upholding and protecting of Human rights. Everyone knows this.

Answer 3

surely, the issue of human rights has been too little, too late. this stems from the belief that a country, or state, has sovereignty which is not to be interfered with, unless things either get WAY too out of hand, or it gets leaked to the media.

Answer 4

Under Bush the US has become a serious human rights violator. Look at the people held prisoner at Guantanmo with no rights at all, no access to courts or family members. They are kept like animals.