Human Rights Watch Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review of the United States of America

Introduction 1. Human Rights Watch submits the following information regarding the United States' implementation of recommendations it accepted through its 2015 Universal Periodic Review (UPR) as well as information about additional international human rights obligations not addressed in the 2015 review.[1] This submission is not a complete review of the implementation of all 260 recommendations either fully or partially supported by the United States, nor is it a comprehensive review of US protection of human rights in the domestic sphere. 2. The United States has failed to implement recommendations…

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