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December 16, 2015

U.N. Experts Disturbed by Treatment of Women in United States 
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And a group of United Nations experts has concluded the United States
has failed to uphold gender equality. Following a visit to the United
States, the three human rights experts from Poland, the United Kingdom
and Costa Rica said they were "appalled by the over-incarceration of
women, mostly for non-violent crimes." They criticized the "deeply
disturbing" condition of migrant women in detention centers, and said
they were shocked by the lack of accommodation for pregnant women in the
workplace. According to The Huffington Post, the women told reporters
the most telling moment of the trip was their visit to an abortion
clinic in Alabama, where they faced harassment from anti-choice
protesters. "It was a kind of terrorism," the delegate from Poland said.