UN Report Details US Human Rights Abuses | Global Research

UN Report Details US Human Rights Abuses | Global Research

A UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) report delivered in mid-March
harshly criticized the United States, citing a laundry list of human
rights violations both on American soil and in countries around the
world.

The report, compiled from the testimony of 18 independent experts,
detailed rampant violations by the US government of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

The report condemned the US for failing to punish high-ranking
military officers and private contractors for crimes, including torture
and targeted killings, saying that only a “meager number” of criminal
charges had been pressed, and against low-ranking personnel at that.

“The Committee notes with concern that all reported investigations
into enforced disappearances, torture and other cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment that had been committed in the context of the CIA
secret rendition, interrogation and detention programmes were closed in
2012 leading only to a meager number of criminal charges brought against
low-level operatives,” the HRC concluded.