UN sets inquiry into racism after George Floyd death
The 47-member state forum in Geneva unanimously adopted a resolution, brought by African countries, that gives the office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet a mandate to report back its findings in a year's time
The United Nations headquarters building is pictured though a window with the UN logo in the foreground in the Manhattan borough of New York August 15, 2014/ Reuters
The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday condemned discriminatory and violent policing that led to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month and ordered a report be drawn up on "systemic racism" against people of African descent.
The 47-member state forum in Geneva unanimously adopted a resolution, brought by African countries, that gives the office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet a mandate to report back its findings in a year's time.
The text was watered down during closed-door negotiations from an initial draft explicitly calling for a UN commission of inquiry on racism in the United States and elsewhere. The Trump administration quit the forum two years ago alleging anti-Israeli bias.
