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U.N. Experts Disturbed by Treatment of Women in United States

HeadlineDec 16, 2015

And a group of United Nations experts has concluded the United States has failed to uphold gender equality. Following a visit to the United States, the three human rights experts from Poland, the United Kingdom and Costa Rica said they were “appalled by the over-incarceration of women, mostly for non-violent crimes.” They criticized the “deeply disturbing” condition of migrant women in detention centers, and said they were shocked by the lack of accommodation for pregnant women in the workplace. According to The Huffington Post, the women told reporters the most telling moment of the trip was their visit to an abortion clinic in Alabama, where they faced harassment from anti-choice protesters. “It was a kind of terrorism,” the delegate from Poland said.

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