This report was not written by the U.N., but was written by a number of American pro-immigrant groups and individuals in response to the official U.S. report to the U.N., "2007 Periodic Report of the United States of America." According to the ACLU, "The U.S. government failed to adequately address problems of widespread racial and ethnic discrimination in America at hearings before the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in Geneva despite testimony from the American Civil Liberties Union and dozens of human rights groups highlighting the existence of pervasive racism in this country."

Following are portions of the report which may be of interest. Also, if you would like to contact the U.N. directly to voice your opinion, the email addresses for the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racism/U.N. Office for Human Rights are:

InfoDesk@ohchr.org

niu@ohchr.org

gmagazzeni@ohchr.org


Contributors to this report included:

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights; Halleland Lewis Nilan & Johnson; Liezl Tomas Rebugio and Priscilla Huang, National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum; National Immigrant Justice Center; Centro Legal, Inc.; National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights; Nicole Phillips, Human Rights Advocates; Bassina Farbenblum, International Human Rights/Rule of Law Project, Seton Hall School of Law; Caroline Bettinger-Lopez, Human Rights Fellow and Attorney, and Rachel Barish, Erin Hyun, and Otto Saki, Human Rights Clinic, Columbia Law School; Julia Busetti, Shalini Deo, Rhonda Copelon, International Women’s Human Rights Law Clinic (IWHR), City University of New York School of Law, Martha Garcia, Battered Women’s Rights Clinic, City University of New York School of Law; Elizabeth Keyes, WEAVE, Inc.; Hope Lewis, Northeastern School of Law; Sarah Paoletti, Erin Argueta and Robert Manzanares, Transnational Legal Clinic, University of Pennsylvania Law School; Meetali Jain, International Human Rights Law Clinic, Washington College of Law American University; and Maura Caroselli, Seton Hall School of Law.

Also joining in the report are:

Hate Free Zone;
Minnesota Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild;
National Immigrant Justice Center;
Program in International Human Rights Law, Indiana University School of Law Indianapolis;
University of Iowa Center for Human Rights

Individuals:

George E. Edwards, Carl M. Gray Professor of Law/Director, Program in International Human Rights Law/Faculty Director/Advisor, Master of Laws (LLM) Track in International Human Rights Law, Indiana University School of Law Indianapolis;
Barbara A. Frey, Director, Human Rights Program, University of Minnesota;
Amy L. Weisman, J.D. Deputy Director, University of Iowa Center for Human Rights;
Deborah M. Weissman, Reef C. Ivey II, Distinguished Professor of Law Director of Clinical Programs School of Law University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


RIGHTS OF IMMIGRANTS AND MIGRANTS TO THE UNITED STATES:
A CRITICAL LOOK AT THE U.S. AND ITS COMPLIANCE UNDER THE CONVENTION

A Response to the 2007 Periodic Report of the
United States of America.

IV. The Discriminatory Impact of U.S. Immigration Enforcement on the Rights of Immigrants

1. Immigrant and refugee communities in the U.S. have been subjected to a range of abuses and assaults in recent years: systematic human rights violations directed by the federal government, local, county and state governments, law enforcement agents, employers and private citizen groups. Working collaboratively, they have advanced hundreds of measures that deny immigrants and refugees due process rights, a living wage, labor protections, and adequate public safety.

2. A soon-to-be-released report titled “Over-Raided, Under Siegeâ€