This database addresses the growing interest in the committees established to monitor the implementation of the principal international human rights treaties such as the Human Rights Committee, the Committee Against Torture, etc. These reports and the concluding observations by the committees form the core of the database, which also contains a number of other related documents and data. Users may search the database by keyword and view results by relevance or date or browse by a variety of parameters, such as country, date, language, treaty, reporting status, or status of ratification. Full text of the declaration adopted by the United Nations on December 10, 1948. The report also indicates that the underlying cause of the problem is the large number of male guards in US women's prisons and their unrestricted access to women's cells, which contravenes UN standards.
Users can read the full text of the report as well as stories and fact sheets at the site.
Home page of Amnesty International - USA features news articles, information about pertinent issues such as the death penalty, how to join AI or make a donation, information about world discrimination and more. Return to Library's Main Page . Return to list of subjects .