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PROBLEMS WITH U.S. COMPLIANCE WITH
THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON
CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS
 
VIOLATIONS OF THE RIGHTS OF ALIENS
 
A report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the
Second and Third Periodic Report of the United States of America
 
May 2006
 
Prepared by
 
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
Halleland Lewis Nilan & Johnson
 
National Employment Law Project,
Sarah Paoletti, Practitioner-in-Residence, Washington College of Law,
American University
Equal Justice Center – Texas
 
Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute
Center for Constitutional Rights
 
 
SIGNATORIES TO THIS REPORT
 
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
 
 
 
 
 
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)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Individuals
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
George E. Edwards, Director, Program in International Human Rights Law, Indiana University School of Law at Indianapolis
A. Belden Fields
Barbara A. Frey, Director, Human Rights Program at the University of Minnesota
Frances Geteles, PhD., Clinical Psychologist
 
 
 
David C. Koelsch, Director, Immigration Law Clinic, University of Detroit Mercy
Amy L. Weisman, Deputy Director, University of Iowa Center for Human Rights