Reports

Reports of Inter-Governmental Organizations, NGOs, Academic and Other Institutions

2006

 

General

1. Human Rights Committee (HRC)

• Second and Third periodic report of the U.S. to the HRC, 28 November 2005.

• List of issues.

• Written replies by the US to the list of issues.

• Concluding observations of the HRC , 28 July 2006.

2. Amnesty International

• “United States of America: Guantánamo and beyond: The continuing pursuit of unchecked executive power”, May 2005.

• “United States of America: Updated briefing to the Human Rights Committee on the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights”, 13 July 2006.

2. Human Rights First

• “Behind the Wire: An Update to Ending Secret Detentions”, March 2005.

Detention, Torture and Ill-Treatment

1. United Nations Commission on Human Rights

• Joint Report of Special Rapporteurs on the situation of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, February 2006.

• Report of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, 16 December 2002.

2. Committee Against Torture (CAT)

• Second periodic report of the U.S., 13 January 2006.

• List of issues , 8 February 2006.

• Written replies by the U.S. to the list of issues;

• Concluding Observations of the CAT , 19 May 2006.

3. Amnesty International

• “USA/JORDAN/YEMEN Torture and secret detention: Testimony of the ‘disappeared’ in the ‘war on terror’”, August 2005.

4. Center for Constitutional Rights

• “Report on Torture, Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment of Prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba”, July 2006.

5. Congressional Research Service

• “Treatment of “Battlefield Detainees” in the War on Terrorism”, 27 March 2006.

• “Guantánamo Detainees: Habeas Corpus Challenges in Federal Court”, 7 December 2005.

6. Human Rights Watch

• “The United States’ ‘Disappeared’: The CIA’s Long-Term ‘Ghost Detainees’", October 2004.

7. Human Rights Watch and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, the New York University School of Law

• “By the Numbers: Findings of the Detainee Abuse and Accountability Project”, April 2006.

Diplomatic assurances

1. Human Rights Watch

• “Empty Promises: Diplomatic Assurances no Safeguard Against Torture”, April 2004.

• “Still at Risk: Diplomatic Assurances no Safeguard Against Torture”, April 2005.

Extraordinary Renditions

1. Council of Europe

• Report of the Secretary General under Article 52 ECHR on the question of secret detention and transport of detainees suspected of terrorist acts, notably by or at the instigation of foreign agencies, March 2006;

• Report of Dick Marty, Special Rapporteur on Alleged secret detentions in Council of Europe member states, , 7 June 2006;

• Supplementary Report of the Secretary General, 14 June 2006;

• Proposals made by the Secretary General, 30 June 2006.

2. Amnesty International

• “Below the radar: Secret flights to torture and ‘disappearance’”, April 2006.

3. Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, the New York University School of Law

• “Beyond Guantánamo: Transfer to Torture One Year After Rasul v. Bush”, June 2005.

• “Torture by Proxy: International and Domestic Law Applicable to ‘Extraordinary Renditions’”, October 2004.

4. Congressional Research Service

• “Renditions: Constraints Imposed by Laws on Torture”, 5 April 2006.

Military Commissions

1.Amnesty International

• United States of America: Justice at last or more of the same? Detentions and trials after Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, September 2006.

2. Human Rights First

• “Trials Under Military Order: A Guide to the Rules for Military Commissions”, May 2006.

3. Human Rights Watch

• “Briefing Paper on U.S. Military Commissions”, June 2006.

• "Q and A: Military Commissions Act of 2006", October 2006.

Discrimination

1. Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, the New York University School of Law

• “Irreversible Consequences: Racial Profiling and Lethal Force in the ‘War on Terror’”.

2. Georgetown University Law Center, Human Rights Institute

• “Unintended Consequences: Refugee Victims of the War on Terror”, May 2006.

Privacy and Surveillance

1. Congressional Research Service

• “Presidential Authority to Conduct Warrantless Electronic Surveillance to Gather Foreign Intelligence Information”, 5 January 2006.

• “USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005: A Legal Analysis”, 24 March 2006.

• “Government Access to Phone Calling Activity and Related Records: Legal Authorities”, 17 May 2006.