Human Rights Watch (HRW) has slammed the U.S. for human rights abuses by the U.S. government. Racial disparities, prison conditions, prosecution of an increasing number of youth, labor rights and rights of non-citizens were examined in the report titled "World Report 2015." Despite all American citizens being protected from racial discrimination under the U.S. constitution and federal law, discrimination based on race still remains, HRW report revealed.
The U.S., a large multi-racial, multi-ethnic and multicultural country has long been suffering from discrimination toward black Americans, immigrants, children, the poor, and prisoners. African-Americans are the people most likely to be subjected to abuses, as recent cases of police shootings has laid bare. The police killings of young black Americans, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Tamir Rice and the subsequent police's brutal intervention on protestors reveals the disparity between "respect for equal rights and law enforcement's treatment of racial minorities." HRW also criticized a new comprehensive immigration reform plan proposed by President Barack Obama in an effort to fix the country's broken immigration system through overhauling immigration enforcement actions. Addressing the issue of undocumented immigrants, President Obama's plan allows up to four million people to apply for a program that provides protection from deportation by allowing them to obtain work permits. In addition, the U.S. released a report on inhumane torture methods used by the CIA. U.S. officials seem reluctant to investigate the allegations as "the Obama administration has failed to bring those responsible for torture to justice," HRW asserted. The failure of Obama administration to broadly investigate the abuses "also greatly weakens the US government's ability to press other countries to prosecute their own torturers", Human Rights Watch said.
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