Holding America accountable: why the United States should take human-rights obligations seriously.(U.S. Compliance)

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, THE MOTHER OF THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN-RIGHTS movement, famously said: "Where do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home. So close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works."

The human-rights treaties to which the United States is a party--on civil and political rights, torture, and racial discrimination-are intended to protect people "close to ...

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