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57/ Human Rights Watch and American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights
Violations in the United States, Washington, 1994, pp. 5 and 37.
58/ "A world without fathers.
Newsweek, 30 August 1993, p. 18.
59/
The struggle to save the black family",
Human Rights Watch and American Civil Liberties, op. cit.
60/ Commission for Racial Justice, Toxic Wastes and Race in the
United States, New York, 1987.
61/ Commission for Racial Justice, op. cit, excerpt from the executive
summary.
62/ Robert D. Bullard, "Confronting Environmental Racism in the U.S. and
Abroad", Testimony prepared for the United Nations Special Rapporteur on
Contemporary Forms of Racism, Atlanta, October 1994.
63/ "A study from Yale University School of Medicine and the New York
Department of Health (Geschwind et. al., 1992), which reviewed the
relationship between birth defects and residence near inactive hazardous waste
sites, found a statistically significant 12 per cent increase in the incidence
of birth defects in babies born to mothers living near toxic sites". In
Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright, "Environmental justice for all:
community perspectives on health and research needs", Toxicology and
Industrial Health, vol. 9, No. 5, 1993, p. 828.
64/ The Special Rapporteur has deliberately restricted himself to federal
legislation, although he is of course aware that there are numerous state
anti-racist and anti-discriminatory laws. Forty-one States have laws against
racially-motivated hate crimes.
66/
United States Commission on Civil Rights, Factsheet 1993, p. 2.
67/ Aviam Soifer, "On being overly discreet and insular: Involuntary
groups and the Anglo-American judicial tradition", in The Protection of
Minorities and Human Rights, edited by Yoram Dinstein and Mala Tabory,
1992, p. 2.
68/ These two articles require States parties to adopt measures to
prohibit, on the one hand, incitement to racial hatred and, on the other,
organizations which incite racial discrimination and their activities.