Model Acts / Resolutions / Treaties

1. EU Charter of International Human Rights, Chapter VI-Justice, Article 47 (2009), available at http://www.europarl.europa.eu/charter/pdf/text_en.pdf.

2. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Resolution 2200A, Article 14 (Dec. 16, 1966), available at http://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/ccpr.aspx.

   • Northeastern University School of Law Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, Access to Civil Justice: Racial Disparities and Discriminatory Impacts Arising from Lack of Access to Counsel in Civil Cases (Dec. 2007), available at http://www.ushrnetwork.org/sites/ushrnetwork.org/files/cerd2008accesstociviljustice.pdf.
   • United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: United States of America (2008), available at http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/CERDConcludingComments2008.pdf.
   • United States, Periodic Report of the United States of America to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Concerning the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (June 12, 2013), available at http://www.ushrnetwork.org/sites/ushrnetwork.org/files/periodic_icerd_report_of_the_usg_2013.pdf.
   • United States, Periodic Report of the United States Of America to the U. N. Committee on the Eliminationof Racial Discrimination Concerning the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Apr. 23, 2007), available at http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/cerd_report/83404.htm.
   • Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute and Northeastern University School of Law Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, Equal Access to Justice: Ensuring Meaningful Access to Civil Cases, Including Immigration Proceedings (CERD Shadow Report) (July 2014), available at http://web.law.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/microsites/human-rights-institute/files/equal_access_to_justice_-_cerd_shadow_report.pdf.
   • United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, CERD Follow-Up Letter Sent to State Party (United States) (May 24, 2016), available at http://www.ushrnetwork.org/resources-media/cerd-follow-letter-sent-state-party-united-states-may-24-2016.
   • United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Concluding Observations on the Combined Seventh to Ninth Periodic Reports of United States of America (2014), available at http://www.ushrnetwork.org/sites/ushrnetwork.org/files/cerd_concluding_observations2014.pdf.

3. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Resolution 2200A, Article 14 (Dec. 16, 1966), available at http://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/ccpr.aspx.

   • Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic, Access to Justice: Ensuring Meaningful Access to Counsel in Civil Cases: Response to the Fourth Periodic Report of the United States to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (ICCPR Shadow Report) (Aug. 2013), published as 64 Syracuse L. Rev. 409 (2014), available at http://web.law.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/microsites/human-rights-institute/files/Access%20to%20Justice%20Shadow%20Report%20-%20Final%20%28small%20size%29.pdf.

   • Human Rights Committee, General Comment No. 32 on Article 14: Right to equality before courts and tribunals and to a fair trial (2007), available at http://www.bayefsky.com/general/ccpr_gencom_32_2007.pdf.

   • United States of America, Fourth Periodic Report of the United States of America to the United Nations Committee on Human Rights Concerning the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Dec. 30, 2011), available at http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/179781.htm.