E/CN.4/1995/78/Add.1 page 35 15/ A call to Arms, the State of African American Health, edited by J. William-Myers, New York African American Institute, State University of New York, 1991, p. 3. 16/ Ibid. 17/ D. La Salle and M.D. Leffall, Jr, "Health Status of Black Americans", in The State of Black America, 1990, National Urban League, Inc., New York, 1990, p. 137. 18/ Interview on 11 October 1994 with Mr. Dennis Hayashi, Director of the Civil Rights Department, Department of Health and Human Services. 19/ Ibid. 20/ Statement made at the hearings on 15 October 1994 in New York. 21/ Making the Union a Reality, A Latino Action Agenda for Educational Reform, Final Report of the Latino Commission on Educational Reform, New York, March 1994, p. 3. 22/ Human Rights Violations in the United States, op. cit, p. 18. It has also been demonstrated that Latin Americans are heavily concentrated in certain districts of New York and Los Angeles. 23/ Quitman County Development Organization, Marks, Mississippi, Paper on the condition of housing in America, submitted at the World Council of Churches Hearings on Racism as a Violation of Human Rights in the United States (8-19 October 1994). 24/ 25/ p. 92. Ibid. Centre for Constitutional Rights Docket, New York, Spring 1994, 26/ Figures provided by the African American Human Rights Foundation and confirmed by the Hearings on Racism organized by the International Association against Torture in New York on 15 October 1994. 27/ The cases are the following: (1) Patterson v. McLean Credit Union, 491 U.S. 164 (1989); (2) Martin v. Wilks, 490 U.S. 755 (1989); (3) Lorance v. AT & T Technologies, Inc. 490 U.S 900 (1989); (4) Price-Waterhouse v. Hopkins, 490 U.S 228 (1989); (5) Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio, 490 U.S 642 (1989). For explanatory details, see Human Rights Violations in the United States, op. cit, pp. 25-28. 28/ See May A. Fisher, "The Feds War Against Black Pols", Gentlemen’s Quarterly, December 1993, pp. 242-250.