ACLU In Geneva To Testify On Ongoing Racial And Ethnic Injustice
2/18/2008 - The ACLU will be in Geneva this week to testify before the United Nations' Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on the contents of a flawed U.S. government report that underreported the state of racial discrimination in the United States. In December 2007, the ACLU released a responsive independent shadow report highlighting the pervasive institutional, systemic and structural racism in America. The U.N. committee reviewed the ACLU and other NGOs' reports before determining what questions it will ask the U.S. government at this week's hearings.

Report: Race & Ethnicity In America: Turning A Blind Eye To Injustice
12/10/2007 - On December 10, 2007, the ACLU 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, and fails to honestly assess the ways in which racial and ethnic discrimination and inequality persist. Read the ACLU report >>

Steven Elloie was severly beaten and tasered by police officers searching his business without a warrant. The unprovoked attack by officers left Elloie severly injured.

Susana Rodriguez Blanco sought asylum in the U.S. after her father was assasinated in Venezuela. She and her mother were locked up in the Hutto detention center for several months.

Siti Rina Aisah was a paid less than 33 cents an hour as a domestic worker for the Ambassador to the Qatar Mission of the United Nations.

Taylor White Buffalo, a Native American student in South Dakota, was arrested and prosecuted for criminal misconduct defending himself in a fight against a Caucasian classmate.

	Dennis Parker, Director of the ACLU's Racial Justice Program, discusses the report with ACLU of Mississippi Executive Director Nsombi Lambright and ACLU of Texas Legal Director Lisa Graybill. MP3 | Podcast		Jamil Dakwar, Advocacy Director for the ACLU's Human Rights Program, discusses the detention of immigrants, women and children with ACLU attorneys Tom Jawetz and Mie Lewis. MP3 | Podcast
	Laleh Ispahani, Senior Policy Cousel for the ACLU's Racial Justice Program, talks about the U.S.'s obligations as a signatory to the CERD treaty. MP3 | Podcast		Chandra Bhatnagar, Staff Attorney for the ACLU's Human Rights Program, discusses affirmative action, racial profiling, and the rights of noncitizens and immigrants. MP3 | Podcast

Selected documents cited in the report:
	Map of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Raids from 2006 – 2007. PDF		Race of Defendants Approved for Federal Death Penalty Prosecutions PDF