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ACLU Hails 'Landmark' Ruling Against U.S. by Int’l Human Rights Body
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Commissioners, L-R: Dinah Shelton (USA); Páulo Sérgio Pinheiro (Brazil); Luz Patricia Mejía (Venezuela); Felipe González (Chile); Rodrigo Escobar Gil (Colombia); María Silvia Guillén (El Salvador); José de Jesús Orozco (Mexico); Executive Secretary, Santiago A. Canton (Argentina).
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/arti…Never mind what the U.S. Supreme Court decided. An international tribunal says the U.S. government violated the human rights of a Colorado woman, whose estranged husband murdered their three children.
Jessica Gonzales, as she was known in June 1999, complained that police in Castle Rock, Colo., ignored her repeated calls for help, after her husband defied a restraining order and took their three young daughters, later shooting the girls to death.Jessica Lenahan (Gonzales) v. United States is the first case brought by a domestic violence survivor against the United States before an international human rights body, said the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented Jessica Lenahan, as she is now known.