UN Human Rights Council Will Debate Systemic Racism & Police Violence in the U.S.

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By Nikki Bambauer

Protests against racism and police violence have grown continuously since police murdered George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25. Following a request by 54 African nations, the UN Human Rights Council announced today that it will hold a debate about systemic racism and police brutality in the United States. According to Voice of America,

“The African group’s letter to the council president notes the uprising in the U.S. is a protest against systemic racism that produces state-sponsored racial violence and impunity for the perpetrators.  It adds the protests the world is witnessing are a rejection of the racial inequality and discrimination suffered by black people and other people of color in the United States.”

The debate will likely take place on Tuesday or Wednesday of this week.

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Mr. Dieudonné W. Désiré Sougouri, Permanent Representative of Burkina Faso as Coordinator of the African Group (via UN Web TV)