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My So-Called Emancipation: From Foster Care to Homelessness for California Youth 12 May 2010 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Country Reports
USA: Model criminal justice? Death by prosecutorial misconduct and a stacked' jury: The case of Reginald Clemons, 17 years on Missouri's death row 11 May 2010 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Country Reports
Costly and Unfair: Flaws in US Immigration Detention Policy 6 May 2010 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Country Reports
Fields of Peril: Child Labor in US Agriculture 5 May 2010 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Country Reports
USA: Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review Ninth session of the UPR Working Group of the Human Rights Council : November-December 2010 19 April 2010 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Country Reports
Sentenced to Stigma: Segregation of HIV-Positive Prisoners in Alabama and South Carolina 14 April 2010 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Country Reports
Universal Periodic Review: United States 31 March 2010 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Country Reports
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, Addendum : Communications to and from Governments 14 February 2010 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Council \| Document type: Country Reports
Jailing Refugees: Arbitrary Detention of Refugees in the US Who Fail to Adjust to Permanent Resident Status 31 December 2009 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Country Reports
Locked Up Far Away: The Transfer of Immigrants to Remote Detention Centers in the United States 2 December 2009 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Country Reports

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