Following the uproar the killing of AfricanAmerican, GeorgeFloyd, by a white policeman in the United States generated across the globe, 54 African countries have asked the UN Human Rights Council to urgently debate racism and policebrutality
In a letter to the global organisation in Geneva, the nations implored the topmost rights body to immediately initiate a discourse on “racially-inspired human rights violations, police brutality against people of African descent and the violence against the peaceful protests that call for these injustices to stop.”
The correspondence, which was addressed to the council president, Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger of Austria, requested that the debate should be held when the council’s 43rd session resumes, having being interrupted in March by the coronavirus scourge.
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