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Report: UN rights chief Bachelet calls for states to ‘stop denying and start dismantling racism’

Race

A report from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, sparked by George Floyd’s death, shows that police brutality against Black people around the world has been allowed to continue with impunity.

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