Periodic UN reporting creates an international review of a nation’s race relations

Evidence

Many forms of discrimination are now prohibited under United Nations human rights conventions so it may be that in the future both the racial discrimination and the racism problematics will be incorporated within a human rights problematic. When in 1994 the United States of America ratified the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination it undertook to report to the United Nations every two years on what it had been doing to fulfill its obligations under the Convention. Once it starts to report periodically there will be a regular review, from an international perspective, of so-called race relations within the USA, as there already is of other countries. This will help promote a common perspective on the practical problems. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 682

Categorization

• QUESTION: The 1994 US ratification and biennial reporting obligation is verifiable and worth chasing — did the US actually file reports regularly, and how were they received?