George Floyd
- Opinion by Peter Splinter
- • March 17, 2021
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GENEVA — The United States’ decision to re-engage with the United Nations Human Rights Council, announced last month, has been welcomed in many quarters. The news offered a sense of the priorities the US would have in returning to…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, OPINIONS, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Peter Splinter
- • July 29, 2020
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GENEVA — In early June, some family members of victims of police killings in the United States and more than 600 civil society organizations worldwide wrote to the United Nations Human Rights Council to request that it urgently hold a…
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS
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- Mona Ali Khalil
- • June 9, 2020
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As the world knows, George Floyd, a black man suspected of passing a counterfeit $20 bill at a store in Minneapolis, Minn., was killed on May 25 by Derek Chauvin, a white police officer. Chauvin had pressed his knee…
- Categories: Covid-19, Human Rights, Secretary-General
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 3, 2020
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In New York City, protesters swarm the roadway portion of the Brooklyn Bridge, heading from the City Hall area of lower Manhattan into Brooklyn. The crowd stopped incoming traffic, but there was no violence, May 30, 2020. JOHN PENNEY…
- Categories: Covid-19, General Assembly, Human Rights, Secretary-General, Security Council