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America commits to rights overhaul in U.N. review

The U.S. accepted four-fifths of the almost 350 recommendations for improving its human rights record that other nations served up in a U.N. peer review.

U.S. National Guard soldiers deploy last May during protests and rioting in Raleigh, North Carolina
U.S. National Guard soldiers deploy last May during protests and rioting in Raleigh, North Carolina (AN/Hannah Tarkelly)

GENEVA (AN) — The United States accepted four-fifths of the almost 350 recommendations for improving its human rights record that other nations served up on Wednesday during a peer review that all of the United Nations' 193 member nations are obliged to go through every four or five years.

China's biting criticism of America's "evil past" was perhaps the most vociferous attack on its record as numerous countries piled up recommendations for the U.S. government to improve in reforming the criminal justice system while combatting racial discrimination, incitement of hatred, systemic racism and xenophobia.

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