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ACLU Marks 60th Anniversary Of Landmark Human Rights Document (12/10/2008)
NEW YORK – On the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the American Civil Liberties Union is calling on the incoming Obama administration to recommit to the rights and principles laid out in the document and use it as a guidepost for setting policy at home and abroad. The UDHR was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948 to codify the basic human rights of all people, and is widely considered to be the founding document of the modern human rights movement.

U.N. Independent Expert On Racism Begins Fact-Finding Mission In U.S. (05/19/2008)
WASHINGTON - Several national civil liberties and human rights groups today welcomed a fact-finding mission to the U.S. by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. The American Civil Liberties Union, Global Rights, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, the U.S. Human Rights Network, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Rights Working Group and the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty call on the U.S., state and local governments to fully cooperate with the special rapporteur

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.

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

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

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)

Testimony of Dennis D. Parker Before United Nations Forum on Minority Issues Minorities and the Right to Education (12/15/2008)
Testimony delivered by Dennis D. Parker, Director of ACLU Racial Justice Program before the United Nations Forum on Minority Issues: Minorities and the Right to Education on December 15, 2008 in Geneva.

Minority Access to Education in the United States (12/07/2008)
Recent Developments and Recommendations by the ACLU regarding Minority Access to Education in the United States, issued December 2008. Submitted to the United Nations Forum on Minority Issues.

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)