In this briefing Amnesty International outlines its concerns regarding aspects of a number of themes, including racial disparities in the criminal justice system, with particular emphasis on juvenile life without parole, the death penalty, and remedy for abuses in the criminal justice system; access to healthcare in the context of maternal health issues; the prevalence of gun violence; racial profiling, including in immigration enforcement; the government’s failure to protect indigenous women from sexual violence; and access to justice for foreign nationals held at the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba.
