The UN and other regional human rights bodies engage in a variety of activities that seek to protect, monitor, and advance human rights worldwide. One tool for human rights compliance is that of monitoring and reporting on human rights conditions. The below list of resources include communications to and from Human Rights Monitoring Bodies relevant to the Coalition's Racial Justice project. To learn more about Human Rights Monitoring Bodies, click here.

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is holding its 72nd session in Geneva, Switzerland this week to review anti-discrimination efforts undertaken by various parties to the Convention, including the United States. The 18-member Committee will review the report submitted by the U.S. State Department on the government's efforts to comply with the Convention. Government representatives will be on hand to answer the Committee's questions as well.

Coalition to Protect Public Housing Member among the Protesters Arrested

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 15 - Residents and supporters gathered outside St. Bernard Housing Development on Saturday for a demonstration that was energetic and peaceful until local police, accompanied by U.S. military personal, arrived to clear the area. Three arrests were reported, including J.R. Fleming, of the Poor People's Economic Campaign for Human Rights and, MCHR member, Coalition to Protect Public Housing, who traveled to New Orleans with a group of young activists.

CHICAGO, Dec. 10 – A broad coalition of community and city-wide organizations, including two MCHR organizations, the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs and the Coalition to Protect Public Housing,  released a groundbreaking report today to the UN committee responsible for overseeing the U.S.’ compliance with the International Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination.

Founded in 1996, in response to the federal mandate to demolish more than 100,000 units of public housing nationwide - 18,000 of those units in Chicago - the Coalition to Protect Public Housing (CPPH) is an advocacy group of public housing residents, community-based organizations, religious institutions, businesses, and non-profit organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union, Community Renewal Society, Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, and Metropolitan Tenants Organization all working