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Joint Letter to U.N. Human Rights Committee re: ICCPR

Written by Coalition

Monday, 09 January 2006

U.S. CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS SIGNING
THE 9 JANUARY 2006 MEMO
TO MEMBERS OF THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE
REGARDING U.S. COMPLIANCE WITH THE ICCPR
Organizations
African American Human Rights Foundation
Dr. Keith Jennings, President
American Friends Service Committee, Immigrant Rights Program
New York Metropolitan Regional Office
Amy Gottlieb, Program Director
American Friends Service Committee, National Criminal Justice Program
Tonya McClary,Esq., National Director
Breakthrough: Building Human Rights Culture
Mallika Dutt, Executive Director
Center for Constitutional Rights
Maria LaHood, Staff Attorney
Center for Victims of Torture
Douglas A. Johnson, Executive Director
Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE)
Bret Thiele, Coordinator of ESC Rights Litigation Programme
Citizens Alert
Jean Maclean Snyder, Director
Equal Justice Society
Eva Paterson, Executive Director
Feminist Caucus of the American Humanist Association
Patricia Willis, Chair
Global Rights - Partners for Justice
Margaret Huang, U.S. Program Director
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights
Sid Mohn, President
Human Rights Advocates
Connie de la Vega
Human Rights Project, Urban Justice Center
Ramona Ortega, Director
Immigrant Law Center of MN
John C. Keller, Interim Executive Director of MN
International Women's Human Rights Law Clinic, City University of New York School of Law
Rhonda Copelon, Professor
International Women's Rights Action Watch
Marsha A. Freeman, Director
Ipas
Patty Skuster, Policy Associate
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Barbara R. Arnwine, Executive Director
Legal Momentum
Julie Kay, Staff Attorney
Maya Raghu, Staff Attorney
Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, Yale Law School
James J. Silk, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Michigan Association for Incarcerated Latinos (MAIL)
Maia Justine Storm, Esq., Executive Director,
Midwest Immigrant & Human Rights Center
Mary Meg McCarthy, Director
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
Jennifer Prestholdt, Deputy Director
The Multiracial Activist
James Landrith
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Prof. Speedy Rice, International Relations
National Economic and Social Rights Initiative
Cathy Albisa, Executive Director
Elizabeth Sullivan, Human Right to Education Project Director
National Lawyers Guild, International Committee
Merrilyn Onisko
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Catherine Tactaquin, Executive Director
Penal Reform International
Jenni Gainsborough, Director, Washington Office
Poverty & Race Research Action Council
Philip Tegeler, Executive Director
Rights Working Group
Paul M. Igasaki, Executive Director
The Sentencing Project
Marc Mauer, Executive Director
US Human Rights Network
Ajamu Baraka, Executive Director
Western Shoshone Defense Project
Julie Ann Fishel
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), US Section
Tamara James, Co-President
World Organization for Human Rights USA
Morton Sklar, Executive Director
Monique Beadle, Refugee Project Director
Individuals signing in personal capacity (* Institutional affiliations are for identification purposes only)
Jamie Brooks
Staff Attorney, National Health Law Program
Hadar Harris
Executive Director, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
American University Washington College of Law
Deena R. Hurwitz
Asst. Clinical Professor, University of Virginia School of Law
Dr. Sharon Hutchinson
Professor of Anthropology and African Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sarah Hymowitz
Human Rights Attorney
Jeff Joseph
Immigration Attorney, Joseph Law Firm
Deborah LaBelle, Esquire
Noah Leavitt
Whitman College
Bert Lockwood
Director, Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights
University of Cincinnati
Tina Minkowitz
Joint Chairperson, World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
Andrea J. Ritchie, Esq.
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
Abderrahim Sabir
Regional Director, Human Rights Education Associates
Cynthia Soohoo
Director, Bringing Human Rights Home Project
Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School
Eric Tars
Human Rights Consultant
Amy L. Weismann
Deputy Director, University of Iowa Center for Human Rights
Deborah M. Weissman
Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Programs
University of North Carolina School of Law