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Race in the US Today

The United States will be reviewed by the UN Committee for the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on February 21 and 22. An unprecedented coalition of over 100 NGOs participated in writing a supplemental shadow report for consideration by the Committee. Over 80 US NGO representatives will be traveling to Geneva to advocate for better US compliance with CERD. To raise awareness of the reporting process and some of the key issues noted in the official US report and the coalition shadow report, the Student Advisory Board of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law has planned a week of activities around the CERD meeting. Please join us on Tuesday, February 19 at 12pm in room 100 to discuss current issues of race in the US, the CERD reporting process, and challenges to US government accountability. The lunchtime discussion will be led by Ryan King of the Sentencing Project and Hadar Harris, Executive Director of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (and a member of the CERD National Coordinating Task Force). The week of events are co-sponsored by the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Student Advisory Board, Asian Pacific American Law Students' Association, Black Law Students' Association, Latino/a Law Students' Association, Immigrants' Rights Coalition, and the Poverty Law Society. For additional information, please contact the Center by emailing humlaw@wcl.american. edu or by calling 202-274-4180.

Full post as published by Washington College of Law Podcasts on February 19, 2008 (boomark / email).