America's Appalling Human Rights Record

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(4) Racial Discrimination

-- a longstanding problem, it affects all aspects of social life, but rarely reported; a May 2010 AP/Univision Poll found 61% of Hispanics and 52% of Blacks affected; on October 28, 2010, The New York Times said more than 60% of Latinos call discrimination a "major problem;"

-- American minorities enjoy fewer political rights, experience much higher unemployment, have lower incomes, fewer benefits, higher poverty, and growing inequality in education;

-- they also lack proper healthcare, face law enforcement and judicial discrimination, and are victimized most often by hate crimes;

-- Latino immigrant rights are seriously compromised, including unjustifiable detentions, interrogations, and targeting for appearing to be Mexican, Latin American, or indigenous non-whites;

(5) Rights of Women and Children

Gender discrimination is widespread; 

-- in August 2010, the London Daily Mail said 90% of US women endure workplace discrimination; 

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