Introduction to CERD and Shadow Reporting

What is Shadow Reporting?

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on CERD by the ACLU

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on CERD by Human Rights Project

Q & A: International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination & Shadow Reports by the Rights Working Group

Fact Sheet on CERD & Reporting Process

Preliminary Analysis of the United States Report to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Brief Overview of the 2007 Report to CERD

Summary of the 2007 US Report to CERD

USHRN Shadow Reports

2008 Shadow Report

2008 CERD Shadow Report Summary submitted by the US Human Rights Network

Other Shadow Reports

Racial Profiling, Police Brutality, Treatment of Immigrants/ Katrina Survivors Among Issues Presented in Rebuttal to U.S. State Department Claims

Written Submission of the Center on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) at its 72nd Session (2008)

Race & Ethnicity in America: Turning a Blind Eye to Injustice

2001 CERD Shadow Report coordinated by the Human Rights Project

"Compliance with Article 5: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights under the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination"

Concluding Observations

Concluding Observations of the Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (2001)

CERD Working Group

CERD Working Groups

Working Group Chairs

CERD Workplan and Timetable

United Nations Related Documents

United Nations

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

International Bill of Rights

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Conventions

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Convention on the Rights of the Child

International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Summary of Covenants and Conventions

http://www.hrweb.org/legal/undocs.html

Committees

Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Human Rights Committee

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Committee against Torture

Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women

Committee on the Rights of the Child

United States Submissions to UN Committees

US Reservations, Understandings, and Declarations upon Ratification (RUDs)
Upon adopting the ICERD, the Senate added this document to limit and clarify its understanding of the treaty.

The first Report of the United States of America to the United Nations Committee
on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (2000) 

The second Report of the United States of America to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (2007)

Early Warning Action Procedure

Links

Urban Justice Human Rights Project

American Civil Liberties Union-Human Rights Program

American Friends Service Committee

Rights Working Group