CURRENT RESEARCH

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Having ratified the International Convention to Eliminate all Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) in 1994,

the U.S. government is required to submit periodic reports to the United Nations Committee to Eliminate Racial Discrimination (CERD).

The U.S. submitted its first report in 2000 and its second report in 2007. I am currently researching the organizing strategies of

U.S. racial justice groups that opted to submit a counter-report to CERD in December 2007

in preparation for the US-CERD review process, which took place on 21-22 February 2008 at U.N. headquarters in Geneva.

Preliminary assessment of the 2008 US-CERD review indicates that the NGO organizing efforts were extremely successful

in holding the U.S. government accountable for human rights abuses within the U.S..

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