Immigrant Workers' Rights Violated, ACLU Charges
Friday, November 03, 2006
- Organization: New York Times
- Link: http://www.nytimes.com
On behalf of six illegal immigrant workers, including the widow of a Mexican killed on a Brooklyn demolition site, the American Civil Liberties Union and other law and labor groups charged yesterday that the United States has failed to protect basic workplace rights guaranteed under international law.
The charges came in a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, an arm of the Organization of American States, which includes all the 35 nations of the Western Hemisphere.
The petition and exhibits are available at:
http://www.ushumanrightsonline.net/library/folder.121295
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