African Countries Lobby For UN Probe Of American Systemic Racism
June 16, 2020
12:35 pm
African countries are lobbying to set up a U.N. inquiry into “systemic racism” and “police brutality” in the United States and elsewhere, aiming to defend the rights of people of African descent.
Reuters reported on a draft resolution circulating among diplomats in Geneva, which voices alarm at “recent incidents of police brutality against peaceful demonstrators defending the rights of Africans and of people of African descent”.
The resolution is due to be considered at an urgent debate of the U.N. Human Rights Council on Wednesday.
The 47-member Council agreed on Tuesday to convene at the request of Burkina Faso on …
