Shadow Report to U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Analysis
– 12/10/07
The Brennan Center participated in a shadow report
to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination,
arguing that the United
States’ failure to provide a civil right to
counsel violates the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Racial Discrimination. In March 2008, the Committee agreed,
writing that it "notes with concern the disproportionate impact that the lack
of a generally recognised right to counsel in civil proceedings has on indigent
persons belonging to racial, ethnic and national minorities."
Tags: Justice, Civil Justice, Civil Right to Counsel
