Posted on January 10th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS
USA does not
have a good human rights record and it does not care either. In the domestic
sphere, US has the largest prison population in the world, mainly drug users, and the highest per-capita incarceration rate. 3000 odd
were on death row in 2016. 2.3 millions
American were behind bars. Many adults died in prison. Children can be sentenced to prison under US
law.
In 2010 USA
came under the Universal Period Review of the UN Human Rights Council. After
which, UNHRC issued 228 recommendations on how US can address its HR
violations. US dismissed many of the recommendations.