Many Americans assume that due to the Civil Rights legislation of the 1960s that the United States is in compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD). This is not the case. The U.S. Human Rights Network provides a fact sheet that details how U.S. law, through several recent Supreme Court rulings, call into question U.S. compliance with CERD. The fact sheet is online here.