US: Systemic Rights Failings

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Demonstrators kneel outside the Long Beach Police Department in Long Beach, California during a protest on May 31, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File (Washington, DC) – Like the January 6, 2021 mob attack on the US capitol involving white supremacists, the Covid-19 pandemic, police killings of Black and brown people, and other events over the past year laid bare major human rights failings in the United States, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2021. President-elect Joe Biden should not only repair recent damage done to human rights protections…

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