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Geneva 3 October, 2022 – More than two years since George Floyd’s horrific murder, UN human rights bodies raise the alarm about the lack of progress on addressing police violence and systemic racism globally. States at the UN Human Rights Council, the Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights, the chairperson of the Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the context of Law Enforcement (EMLER), Collette Flanagan (United States) of Mothers Against Police Brutality (MAPB) whose son was killed by police in 2013; and Jurema Werneck (Brazil) director of Amnesty International in Brazil took part in a debate on systemic racism and the excessive use of force by law enforcement agencies against Africans and people of African descent.
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