WASHINGTON (AN) — Dozens of nations repeatedly urged the United States to eradicate its systemic racism and police brutality — and U.S. officials vowed to make changes — but there have been few such improvements, according to two comprehensive U.N. human rights reviews. The third review is aptly slated for November.
For the first time in 2011 and again in 2015, the international community reviewed the United States' human rights record. Despite widespread recognition among Western liberal societies of America's democratic ideals and values, United Nations Human Rights Council member nations harshly criticized America's endemic racism, discrimination and violence by police, and its widespread use of the death penalty.
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