Today, August 13th, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) will begin a two-day review of the United States’ compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The review, which will include questioning of U.S. representatives, will be webcast from Geneva on August 13, 9:00 a.m. to noon (ET), and on August 14, from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. (ET) at www.treatybodywebcast.org.
To help inform CERD’s review, the NCAI Task Force on Violence against Women, National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, Clan Star, Inc., and Indian Law Resource Center submitted a joint shadow report “Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women — United States’ Violations of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.” The shadow report is available at
http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CERD/Shared%20Documents/USA/INT_CERD_NGO_USA_17549_E.pdf.
For more on CERD, visithttp://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CERD/Pages/CERDIndex.aspx.
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