Группы по гражданским правам призывают Совет по правам человека США «срочно» встретиться с полицией США по вопросам насилия

(GENEVA) — The American Civil Liberties Union says relatives of George Floyd and three plenty of murky of us who were killed by police maintain joined some 600 rights groups to predict the head U.N. human rights body “urgently” convene a clear session to see into an boost of police violence and repression of protests in the US.

A spokesman for the Human Rights Council in Geneva confirmed that it had received a letter Monday from the groups outlining their name, as Dark Lives Topic protests proceed to accomplish traction smartly beyond the US — notably in Europe.

“I prefer of us the field over and the leaders in the United Countries to behold the video of my brother George Floyd, to hearken to his bawl for relief, and I prefer them to answer his bawl,” Floyd’s brother Philonese Floyd acknowledged in an ACLU commentary, alluding to video of the killing in Minneapolis.

“I wish to allure to the United Countries to assist him. Support me. Support us. Support murky men and females in America,” he added.

No decrease than one-third of the council’s 47 member states would must assist the decision for a clear session in relate for one to be known as.

The possibilities of 1 being held suddenly remained unsure. The body had gash short its closing session in March thanks to the coronavirus outbreak and has been grappling with ways to originate up it assist up subsequent Monday. The council develop into already scheduled to maintain the 2nd of its three classes per annum one more session starting in June.

The efforts had been sophisticated for the reason that authorities of Switzerland, which has seen the COVID-19 pandemic fade in contemporary weeks, is for now soundless limiting all public gatherings to no more than 300 of us. Council classes most steadily blueprint hundreds more than that.

The groups prefer an fair investigation into the contemporary killings of unarmed murky of us in the US, along with to one into “violent legislation enforcement responses to protests.” The choice included relatives of Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown and Philando Castile.

“It’s time the US face the identical scrutiny and judgment it is a ways fast to slump on to plenty of countries,” acknowledged Jamil Dakwar, who heads the ACLU’s human rights program. “As communities in the US name on their leaders to divest from policing and cease structural racism, the United Countries must relieve these home demands by preserving the US accountable for its human rights violations.”

America, like any U.N. member states, most steadily has its human rights file examined by the council, a body that’s not piece of the United Countries but is supported by it.

The Trump administration pulled the US out of the council two years ago amid accusations that it develop into biased against Israel and counted some repressive or autocratic regimes that abuse human rights as contributors.

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