What is Shadow Reporting?  

Toolkits

• CERD Toolkit

2008 Shadow Report

• "Hurricane Katrina and Criminal Justice"
• "Hurricane Katrina: Racial Discrimination and Ethnic Cleansing in the United States in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina"

Other Shadow Reports

• Racial Profiling, Police Brutality, Treatment of Immigrants/ Katrina Survivors      Among Issues Presented in Rebuttal to U.S. State Department Claims
• International Human Rights Law & Hurricane Katrina: ICCPR Violations by the United States Government
• 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

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

• Summary

Committee

• 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)

Links

• United Nations
• High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Urban Justice Human Rights Project
• American Civil Liberties Union - Human Rights Program
• American Friends Service Committee