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International Human Rights Experts Denounce U.S. Record On Racial And Ethnic Discrimination (03/07/2008)
GENEVA -- A United Nations committee today issued a strongly worded critique of the United States' record on racial discrimination and urged the government to make sweeping reforms to policies affecting racial and ethnic minorities, women, and immigrants in this country. The American Civil Liberties Union called on the U.S. government to take vigorous steps to implement the committee's recommendations and fulfill its human rights treaty obligations.

New ACLU Report Details Pervasive Racial Discrimination in America (12/10/2007)
NEW YORK -- The American Civil Liberties Union today released a comprehensive analysis of the pervasive institutionalized, systemic and structural racism in America. The report, Race & Ethnicity in America: Turning a Blind Eye to Injustice, is a response to the U.S. report to the United Nations' Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) released earlier this year. The U.S. report, which the ACLU called a "whitewash," swept under the rug the dramatic effects of widespread racial and ethnic discrimination in this country.

ACLU Releases Scathing Analysis of Government’s Report to UN Committee on Racial Discrimination (06/13/2007)
NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union today released a scathing preliminary analysis of a recent government report to a United Nations committee about the state of racial discrimination in the United States. The report was submitted to the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in Geneva.

New Jersey Citizens on Parole and Probation Bring Plea For Right to Vote to Human Rights Body (09/14/2006)
NEWARK -- The American Civil Liberties Union and the Rutgers Law School Constitutional Litigation Clinic filed a petition today urging the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to rule that denying New Jersey citizens on parole and probation the right to vote violates universal human rights principles.

On Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, ACLU Sees America's Reputation as Human Rights Leader Diminished (08/29/2006)

Resumen Ejecutivo: Raza y ethnicidad en Estados Unidos: Dando la espalda a la injustia (12/10/2007)
Spanish Translation "Race & Ethnicity: Turning a Blind Eye to Injustice" report executive summary

Race & Ethnicity in America: Turning a Blind Eye to Injustice (12/10/2007)

Executive Summary: Race & Ethnicity in America: Turning a Blind Eye to Injustice (12/10/2007)

Abandoned & Abused: Complete Report (08/09/2006)

Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (09/13/2006)
Petition alleging violations of the human rights of the New Jersey State Conference NAACP, the Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey, Councilwoman Patricia Perkins-Auguste, Councilman Carlose J. Alma, Stacey Kindt, Michael Mackason, Charles Thomas, and Dana Thompson, By the USA and the State of New Jersey, with request for an investigation and hearing on the merits.

Racial Profiling as a Violation of Human Rights (04/01/2005)

Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (03/07/2008)

Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination — Frequently Asked Questions (02/28/2008)

Statement by Akifur Rahman to the 72nd session of Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (02/18/2008)

Abandoned & Abused: Executive Summary and Recommendations (08/09/2006)