UN Makes Landmark Call to Address Systemic Racism

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A protester puts his hands up in front of a line of police in riot gear in the US city of Columbus, Ohio, on June 5, 2020. © 2020 Stephen Zenner / SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Images (Geneva) – United Nations member countries at the UN Human Rights Council should take decisive action to carry out the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ recommendations on systemic racism and police violence against Africans and people of African descent, Human Rights Watch said today. In the Commissioner’s June 28, 2021 report, prepared at the Human Rights Council’s request after…

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