Do you know any reports of violations of human rights abuses in the U.S. made to international organizations?

Question

Perhaps cases involving local government misuse of power?
To which international organizations were these incidents reported?

Answer 1

I'd include the vigil kept by the Reporters Without Borders organization for Sami al-Haj, an al-Jazeera cameraman who was arrested by US forces and sent to Gitmo, where he's languished for several years now.

Human Rights Watch, however, probably keeps the largest database of information about human rights abuses that occur within the US, although they're obviously quite concerned with the Gitmo situation as well.

Check their US page out here:

http://www.hrw.org/doc/?t=usa

Since the US is not a signatory to the Rome Statute, US citizens can only be prosecuted for human rights abuses by US criminal courts, not the ICC, so reports to IGOs of any kind are useful only in terms of media awareness - if US courts cannot or will not prosecute human rights abuses, there's no other legal authority.

Answer 2

Check out Amnesty International's website and you'll be able to find more information on there. They are an international organization for human rights.

Answer 3

"International" organisations?
There's not a lot they can do in the U.S.
The "U.N." a few years ago tried to do a "prison inspection" in the U.S. and the Wardens wouldn't even let them in! lolol
(They should have let them in and kept them in jail! lol)
They really don't have any legal standing.
Think about it, would you do anything someone in the "U.N." "told" you to do?
Or Amnesty "International?" Oh yeah, I'll be listening REAL hard to some 24 year old college kid with a chip on her shoulder!
If they want to "save the world" they should start in their own countries and not worry about some third or fourth world **** pit.

Answer 4

Yes, there was a mentally challenged man on death row in Texas several years ago, and many human rights organizations took up his cause.

There have been others, like the Melai massacre, but that was many years ago.

Answer 5

The Death Penalty, Police Abuse, Gay and Lesbian Rights and Immigrant Rights