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U.S. Human Rights Record Assessed in UN Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review Process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 105 , Issue 1 , January 2011 , pp. 139 - 142
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2011

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1 U.S. Dep’t of State Press Release, Interactive Dialogue on the U.S. Universal Periodic Review: Opening Statement by the U.S. Delegation (Nov. 5, 2010), at http://www.state.gOv/p/io/rm/2010/150485.htm.

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3 Switzerland: U.S. Disputes Criticism of Its Record on Rights , N.Y. Times, Nov. 6, 2010, at A5 Google Scholar; Lynch, Colum, U.S. Offers Its Human Rights Record for U.N. Review, Wash. Post, Nov. 6, 2010, at A7 Google Scholar.

4 At http://www.un.org/webcast/unhrc/archive.asp?go=101105.

5 Compilation Prepared by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Accordance with Paragraph 15(b) of the Annex to Human Rights Council Resolution 5/1: United States of America, UN Doc. A/HRC/WG.6/9/USA/2 (Aug. 12, 2010). All of the official documents concerning this review are available at http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/PAGES/USSession9.aspx.

6 Summary prepared by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Accordance with Paragraph 15(c) of the Annex to Human Rights Council Resolution 5/1, Doc. AyHRC/WG.6/9/USA/3/Rev.l (Oct. 14, 2010).

7 Draft Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: United States of America, UN Doc. A/HRC/WG.6/9/L.9 (Nov. 10, 2010).

8 U.S. Dep’t of State Press Release, Legal Adviser Harold Hongju Koh, Response of the United States of America to Recommendations of the United Nations Human Rights Council (Nov. 9, 2010), at http://www.state.gOv/s/1/releases/remarks/150677.htm.