GENEVA (AN) — Prompted by U.S. and global unrest over the killing of George Floyd, the United Nations Human Rights Council agreed on Monday to an African Union request for an urgent debate on systemic racism and police brutality.
The debate will focus on “the current racially inspired human rights violations, systematic racism, police brutality and the violence against peaceful protests," the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, or OHCHR, notified reporters by e-mail. It is scheduled for this week in the council's assembly hall.
