”Challenging U.S. Human Rights Violations Since 9/11”
A. Basic Rights Of All Peoples Under U.S. Jurisdiction
- Right Not To Be Killed Or Disappeared
- Right Not To Be Tortured
- Right Peaceably To Assemble And Petition The Government
- Right To Equal Protection Regardless Of Race Or National Origin
- Right To Equal Protection For Women
- Right To Free Exercise Of Religion
- Right Of The Media To Report Facts, And Not Be Killed
- Right To Privacy From Surveillance
- Right Of Libraries Not To Report On Readers
- Right Of Universities To Accept Foreign Scholars And Students
- Right To Travel
5. Right To Equal Protection For Women
Since 9/11, women and girls in the U.S. or under U.S. jurisdiction have had a harder life. They continue to earn less than men, and the gap increased since 2000, although they pay the same prices. Every mother and grandmother knows she can’t afford to pay another woman to take care of her offspring with what she has to pay a plumber.
There is no record of action by the Women’s Bureau or the Civil Rights Division on these issues since 9/11.
The Fourteenth Amendment forbids the denial of equal protection based on race; the Nineteenth Amendment granted women the vote. UN Charter Articles 55 and 56 specifically forbid sex discrimination. So does the (ratified) ICCPR. Pres. Carter signed, but the Senate never ratified, the Convention on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. Bush has said nothing about this.
Women Earning 76.6% of What Men Earn
("Welfare: NOW Calls for Real Reform," National Organization for Women, Sept. 30, 2003, http://www.now.org/issues/economic/welfare/ accessed July 31, 2004)
U.S. Media Discriminating Against Women: Brenda Bergman, et al.
(Jennifer L. Pozner, "Missing Since 9-11: Women's Voices," Common Dreams, Dec. 13, 2001, http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1213-04.htm accessed July 31, 2004 )
One Million Women March for Women's Lives
("1,150,000 March on Washington. D.C. to Voice Opposition to Government Attacks on Women's Reproductive Rights and Health," March for Women, April 2004, http://www.marchforwomen.org/content/index.php? pid=119&PHPSESSID=eee953fbf38a0663ef66566e594bd377 accessed June 30, 2004; Lisa Bennett, "Over One Million March for Women's Lives," National Organization for Women.org, Spring 2004, http://www.now.org/nnt/spring-2004/march.html accessed June 30, 2004.)
U.S. Troops Mistreating Women in Iraq
("Iraq: Amnesty International reveals a pattern of torture and ill treatment," Amnesty International, June 2004, http://web.amnesty.org/pages/irq-torture-eng accessed August 4, 2004; Associated Press, "Iraqis Tell Grim Stories Of U.S.-Run Camps," Toronto Star, Oct. 29, 2003, http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=1687 accessed July 30, 2004; ICRC director of operations, Pierre Krähenbühl, "Iraq: ICRC explains position over detention report and treatment of prisoners," May 8, 2004, International Committee of the Red Cross/Red Crescent, http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList74/7EE8626890D74F76C1256E8D005D3861 accessed August 8, 2004.)
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