The report was submitted earlier this year to the U.N.'s Human Rights Committee by Mililani Trask, convenor of Na Koa Ikaika O Ka Lahui Hawai'i, Kai'opua Fife of the Koani Foundation and Kekuni Blaisdell, chairman of the Kanaka Maoli Tribunal Komike.

The groups are seeking the removal of the U.S. government from the Hawaiian Islands.

Trask, Fife and Blaisdell appeared at a news conference yesterday in front of 'Iolani Palace, where Queen Liliu'okalani was overthrown in 1893 by businessmen with the backing of U.S. troops.

Trask said the report she drafted was in response to a 2005 submittal to the U.N. by the Bush administration in which it claimed the U.S. was in compliance with its human rights obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, a human rights treaty.

The U.S. has been in violation of the treaty by failing to provide Native Hawaiians their right to self-determination and stealing their lands, Trask said. "The United States has failed to provide justice and the right of self-determination to the Native Hawaiian peoples." Trask noted that former President Bill Clinton, in 1993, signed the Apology Bill that acknowledges the U.S. role in the overthrow and subsequent injustices.

"There, in fact, has not been any justice or redress," she said.

The goal of the report is "to shame the United States for its theft of our nation, theft of our government, the taking of our land," Blaisdell said.