American Friends Service Committee

U.S. civil society signatories to the memo to the U.N. Human Rights Committee

U.S. CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS SIGNING

THE 9 JANUARY2006 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, StaffAttorney

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 JusticeCenter

Ramona Ortega, Director

ImmigrantLawCenter of MN
JohnC. Keller, Interim Executive Director of MN

International Women's Human Rights Law Clinic, CityUniversity of New YorkSchool 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, YaleLawSchool

Michigan Association for Incarcerated Latinos (MAIL)

Maia Justine Storm, Esq., Executive Director,

MidwestImmigrant & Human RightsCenter

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

AmericanUniversityWashingtonCollege of Law

Deena R. Hurwitz
Asst. Clinical Professor, University of VirginiaSchool 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

WhitmanCollege

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

CynthiaSoohoo
Director, Bringing Human Rights Home Project

Human Rights Institute, ColumbiaLawSchool

Eric Tars

Human Rights Consultant

Amy L. Weismann

Deputy Director, University of IowaCenter for Human Rights

Deborah M. Weissman

Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Programs

University of North CarolinaSchool of Law

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