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United States of America
Rights For All

(Full Report)

CONTENTS
    Glossary

  1. Rights for All: Introduction
    The federal system
    Divisions and inequalities
    Campaigning for human rights

  2. Universal human rights:
    International standards
    US treaty obligations
    Other international standards


  3. Police brutality: A pattern of abuse
    Violations of standards
    Systematic abuses in large cities
    Federal agents
    Patterns of brutality
    Dangerous restraint holds
    Less-than-lethal weapons
    Prejudiced policing
    Investigations and remedies
    Recommendations

  4. Violations in prisons and jails:
    Needless brutality
    A system under pressure
    Standards for protecting prisoners
    Physical brutality
    Sexual abuse
    Abusive use of restraints
    Supermaximum security units
    Inadequate health care
    Violations of children's rights
    Mechanisms to remedy abuses
    Recommendations

  5. Treated as criminals: Asylum-seekers in the USA
    Behind bars: detention of asylum-seekers
    Indefinite detention
    Treated as criminals
    Recommendations


  6. The death penalty: Arbitrary, unfair and racially biased
    International trends
    History repeats itself
    Public attitudes - brutalizing society
    The politics of death
    Cruel, inhuman and degrading
    Race and the death penalty
    Executing juvenile offenders
    Killing the mentally disabled
    Death by omission
    Risk to the innocent
    National and international concern
    Official responses
    Recommendations


  7. Double standards: The USA and international human rights protection
    A troubled history
    National versus international standards: false division
    Reaction to other governments
    Human rights treaties: unwilling party
    Recommendations

  8. Out of control: US arms and human rights abuses
    Tackling the deadly trade
    Lack of transparency
    Giving away US arms
    What type of training?
    Accountability
    Recommendations

  9. Rights for All: Time to deliver

  10. Appendix: Selected Amnesty International reports on the USA

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