The Human Rights Project

The BI and the Center for Community Alternatives and Justice Policy Institute jointly worked to find innovative ways to use international law (i.e. United Nation's treaties) in juvenile justice advocacy in the U.S. As part of this effort, the BI helped draft the juvenile justice shadow report that critiqued the performance of the U.S. in dealing with racial discrimination.

That report was submitted to the UN committee that oversees the United States’ compliance with the treaty that obligates the U.S. eliminate all forms of racial discrimination (the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination). The BI followed up on the shadow report by participating in a delegation of Human Rights activists that went to Geneva, Switzerland to press the case at the UN that the United States was not meeting its treaty obligations to eliminate discrimination.