2023-04-26 00:26:00
A team of United Nations human rights experts have arrived in the United States for a visit focusing on racial justice, policing and policing, The Guardian reported on Monday.
The independent panel, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, will travel to Washington DC, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis and New York during a two-week tour, the newspaper said. British.
“Activists in Atlanta await the panel with particular anticipation,” the newspaper said, citing activists like black activist Collette Flanagan, who founded Mothers Against Police Brutality following her son Clinton Allen was killed by police in 2013 in Dallas, TX.
“Extrajudicial executions are increasingly common in American police,” Ms. Flanagan said, adding that police brutality represented a massive violation of human rights.
“We hope that this visit will enable us to help America meet its obligations under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights agreements,” she said. .
Arriving in Atlanta on Wednesday, the panel will hear a variety of testimony on topics including how institutional abuse affects families, The Guardian reported,
The UN trip aims to “advance change for racial justice and equal law enforcement for Africans and people of African descent,” the UN said.
The panel was created “in response to widespread outcry” over the 2020 police killing of George Floyd, The Guardian reported.
Following the murder of Mr. Floyd, protests once morest police brutality and racial inequality, particularly once morest black people, quickly spread across the United States and around the world. His last words, “I can’t breathe”, became a rallying cry for activists.
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