DRAFT

THE AMERICAN PSYCHOOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA) welcomes the opportunity to provide comments on the Durban Review Outcome Document. APA is recognized with special consultative status at the United Nations and is accredited to the UN Department of Public Information as a non-governmental organization (NGO). APA’s representatives interact with the NGO community at the United Nations in New York, Geneva, and Vienna and APA serves on the CONGO Executive Committee. APA is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States and is the world’s largest association of psychologists. APA’s membership includes 150,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students. Through our 53 professional divisions of psychology and affiliations with 59 state, territorial, and Canadian provincial associations, APA works to advance psychology as a science, as a profession, and as a means of promoting health, education, and human welfare. APA was one of the many (NGOs) that sent a delegation to the World Conference Against Racism in 2001. The primary goal of APA’s interventions at that time, based on the APA Resolution on Racism an