The ACLU is fighting racial and ethnic discrimination across the United States. Click on the map to learn about racial discrimination problems in your state.

	In 1994, the United States ratified the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD). As a result of the ratification, all levels of the U.S. government are required to comply with CERD's provisions, which require countries to review national, statewide and local policies, and to amend or repeal laws and regulations that create or perpetuate racial discrimination.
	On December 10, 2007, the ACLU submitted a report to the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Called Race & Ethnicity in America, the report finds that individual and institutional racial and ethnic discrimination continues to pervade American society, and policies and practices at the federal, state, and local levels place a disproportionate burden on those most vulnerable in society - racial and ethnic minorities, women, children, immigrants and non-citizens, and the accused.