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Obama administration reports to the UN on human rights issues in U.S.

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Takes the fight against Arizona SB 1070 international By Douglas J. Hagmann Under the administration of Barack Hussein Obama, the United States submitted its first ever ?Universal Periodic Review (UPR) report? to the United Nations.  This is the first time in the history of the United Nations that the U.S. has submitted a report to the United Nation?s Human Rights Council, which is the first step in submitting the United States to international review by some of the most repressive and abusive nations in the world.  The 29-page report can be read here. The report is the product of about a dozen conferences held across the U.S. between January and April 2010. The participants of these conferences featured such luminaries as  Stephen Rickard and Wendy Patten, from George Soros? Open Society Institute; Devon Chaffee, Human Rights First; Andrea Prasow, Human Rights Watch; Imad Hamad (a suspected member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization), American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee; Dawud Walid, Council American Islamic Relations; Nabih Ayad, Michigan Civil Rights Commission; Ron Scott, Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality; Osama Siblani, Arab American News; Shannon Minter, National Center for Lesbian Rights and Cynthia Soohoo, Center for Reproductive Rights, among others...continue to full post

Full post as published by Northeast Intelligence Network on August 25, 2010 (boomark / email).