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The U.N committee of 80 (18) independent experts peppered the U.S delegations with numerous questions. It challenged the assertions that the government was doing enough to combat alleged racial discrimination in the attention of African-Americans and other minorities.

联合国委员会18位独立专家对美国大使发出了一连串的问题。其质疑了美国政府的申明,在申明中,美国表示政府已经做了足够多的事情来对抗美国在关注非洲裔美国人和其他少数民族方面存在种族歧视的指控。

It questioned Washington’s treatment of illegal immigrants and demanded answers to arrangea range of issues including alleged to *disparities in housing, education, employment and health care.

代表团之一了华盛顿处理非法移民的做法,并且要求(美国代表)回答一系列问题,这包括对它们在住房、教育、雇佣制度以及健康保险方面不一致的指控。

The community members also expressed concern about issues such as racial proliferating (profiling), alleged racial bias in illegal (the legal) system and sense thing (the sentencing) of African-American juveniles to lifelong person (prison) terms.

委员会成员也表示对“种族脸谱化”、被指控在法律体系中存在种族偏见以及对非洲裔美国年轻人实行终身监禁的判刑的关注。

Acting U.S Assistant turning (Attorney) General as (at) the Justice Department’s civil rights division, Grace *Chung Becker said the delegation shared the community (Committee’s) concerns about police brutality.

作为律政司民权部首席检察官助理,Grace Chung Becker谈到,代表与委员会就关心的警察暴力问题交换了意见。

"In the surveillance to vision (civil rights division,) we have increase by 25% number of cases that we have brought in this area and we have increased conditions (convictions) by 53% of the last seven years. In addition, on the civil side, we continued to presume (pursue) pattern in (and) practice cases against the policy departments for what we can preserve (perceive as) unconstitutional policing. This can include excessive uses of force, as well as a biased policing and unconstitutional searches in this *(and seizures.).”

“在民权部,我们处理该类案件的数量增加了25%,并且在过去七年中,最终定案的数量增加了53%。此外,在民事方面,我们继续追踪和判定警察部门中那些我们可以感知到属于违宪法警察行为的案件。这包括过度使用暴力以及有偏见的侦讯和违反宪法的搜查及查封。”

posted @ 2008-02-27 11:50 nicolelea 阅读(22) 评论(0)  编辑  收藏 所属分类: VOA standard 网摘收藏

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