Katrina Shadow Reporting
Introduction to Shadow Reporting
2008 Shadow Report
Hurricane Katrina and Criminal Justice
Racial Discrimination and Ethnic Cleansing in the United States in the Aftermath of Hurricane
Other Shadow Reports
International Human Rights Law: ICCPR Violations by the United States Government
Center on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) to 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
International 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 Their Families
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
UN 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
United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights
Urban Justice Human Rights Project
American Civil Liberties Union - Human Rights Program
American Friends Service Committee