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November , the court released Alexander
on bond until her retrial. Though only
10% of the survivors of hate crimes are
transgender women, they make up 45%
of all reported hate murders and 87% of
those murders were transgender women
of color.
67-In August 2013, Islan Nettles
, a transgender woman of color was
“savagely beaten [to death]…by a man
shouting homophobic slurs in Harlem.”
68-The prohibition of torture in all
prisons and detention centers and the
closing of Guantanamo and other secret
detention centers around the world was
another recommendation which the US
Government accepted in the first round
of the UPR on the USA, but serious steps
have not taken in this regard.
69- In early 2013 a number of
Guantanamo inmates went on hungers
strike in protest to their continued
detention and their conditions in prison.
Prison official force fed them though a
nasal tube to prevent the inmates from
dying, and according to human rights
groups force feeding of prisoners is a
violation of international human rights
standards. ButAmerica claimed that these
measures were taken for the protection
of the lives of prisoners force feeding
prisoners was very painful.
70- The US government also in its
approach to the Guantanamo detainees,
continues to try them in military
commissions, whereas international law
calls upon states to try civilians in civilian
courts fairly. These commissions also lack
international standards for the holding of
fair trials.
71- The indefinite and immediate
detention of individuals suspects of
terrorism, without being charged or tried,
and their incarceration in Guantanamo
has entered its 12th year. Currently there
are 162 detainees in the centre.
72- According to this report, the
release or transfer of 82 inmates has
been established, but America claims
because of the going security and existing
conditions concerns in the countries of
birth of the inmates or third countries
where they are due to be sent to, America
has refrained from doing so.
73- Once again in 2013 Barak Obama
promised to shut down Guantanamo
prison, but these promises have not been
fulfilled.
Recommendation
International instrument & CP rights
74-
Withdraw
reservations,
denunciations, and interpretations of
the Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, the International Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination and the Convention
against Torture, which undermine their
compliance.
75- Ratify ICESCR and its Optional
Protocol, the first Optional Protocol to
the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights, CEDAW, the Convention
on the Rights of the Child, the Optional
Protocol to the Convention against
Torture, the Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities, the Convention
for the Protection of All Persons from
Enforced Disappearance.
76- Ratify the International Convention
for the Protection of All Persons from
Enforced Disappearances and the
Convention on Rights of Persons with
Disabilities in order to further strengthen
their support to the United Nations
Human Rights mechanisms.
77- Ratify the following conventions
and protocols: the Statute of the
International Criminal Court, those of