The United Nations Human Rights Council has released a report expressing serious concerns over human rights abuses in the United States of America.

The report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) points to human rights violations and concerns regarding torture, police brutality, and wide-ranging discriminations that the US government has neglected to properly address.

Systematic violations of human rights by the US government were detailed in the report, which indicates that most violations affected African Americans, minorities, especially Muslims, and immigrant communities in the US as well as abroad.

One serious case cited in the report is the impunity given to private (armed) contractors and civilian intelligence agents for killings of innocent people in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

The use of torture against prisoners and detainees by military personnel in Guantanamo Bay prison, as well as detention centers in Iraq and Afghanistan, is also condemned in the report, which alleges that the US "had established secret detention facilities, and that those detained in such facilities could be held for prolonged periods and face torture."

It also censures rendition activities as they have increasingly placed people at risk of torture.

According to the report, after the 9/11 attacks, non-US citizens suspected of terrorism-related activities, have been detained with few legal rights.

The human rights report also points out that the US government is holding over 380,000 non-citizens in over 300 different facilities in the US for removal proceedings.

Another serious concern raised in the report was "persistent racial disparities regarding the imposition of the death penalty," where by it was recommended that the US adopt "all necessary measures, including a moratorium, to ensure that the death penalty is not imposed as a result of racial bias."

Discrimination continues to pervade the US, where minorities, especially African Americans, face "disproportionately high levels of unemployment, lower income levels, access to education and to quality health-care services."

It also reiterates that many low-income African Americans continue to be displaced five years after Hurricane Katrina.

Police brutality towards African Americans, Latinos and undocumented migrants were also a cause for scrutiny and concern in the report.

In addition, Arabs, Muslims and South Asians were said to be the targets of racial profiling. The US government has reportedly been monitoring private communications of individuals within and outside of the country without judicial oversight, infringing upon people's rights to privacy.

The report also mentions that "the United States contributed financially to OHCHR in the period in consideration."

Source: Press TV