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Tuesday, August 29th, 2017

The UN Warns the US Over Its Response to Charlottesville

Author:     Daniele Selby
Source:     Global Citizen
Publication Date:     AUG. 24, 2017
 Link: The UN Warns the US Over Its Response to Charlottesville
Stephan:   Burundi, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, the Ivory Coast, and now the US have all been admonished by the United Nations for being racist societies. Well now, isn't that fine. And just to emphasis the racism the President of the United States just slapped away American jurisprudence in order to pardon a sadistic racist sheriff. Just the way you want people to think of your country.

White nationalist demonstrators walk through town after their rally was declared illegal near Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017.
Credit: AP Photo/Steve Helber

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) called on the US to unequivocally condemn the racism and hate speech on Wednesday.

“We are alarmed by the racist demonstrations, with overtly racist slogans, chants and salutes by white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and the Ku Klux Klan, promoting white supremacy and inciting racial discrimination and hatred,” Anastasia Crickley, the Chairperson of CERD, said in a news release.

The committee urged the US “to address the root causes of the proliferation of such racist manifestations,” and called on the government “to investigate thoroughly the phenomenon of racial discrimination targeting, in particular, people of African descent, ethnic or ethno-religious minorities, and migrants.”

CERD is made up of independent human rights experts and is responsible for monitoring countries’ compliance with and implementation of the UN International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which the US ratified in 1994.

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