African Nations Warn U.S. to ‘Cooperate Fully’ with U.N. Inquiry into ‘Racism, Police Brutality’
by Simon Kent The U.S. was warned Tuesday it must cooperate fully with questioning by the U.N. Human Rights Council over allegations of “systemic racism and police brutality.” Reuters reports the warning is contained in the text of a proposal, circulating among diplomats in Geneva, voicing alarm at “recent incidents of police brutality against peaceful demonstrators defending the rights of Africans and of people of African descent.” The main U.N. human rights body agreed Monday to a request from African countries to urgently debate alleged “systemic” U.S. human rights abuses sparked by the death of George Floyd, the black man...
by Simon Kent The U.S. was warned Tuesday it must cooperate fully with questioning by the U.N. Human Rights Council over allegations of “systemic racism and police brutality.” Reuters reports the warning is contained in the text of a...
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