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The Interlinking Crises of COVID and Police Violence on the June 2020 Global Anti-racism Debate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2021

E. Tendayi Achiume
E. Tendayi Achiume*
Affiliation:
Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law; United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance.
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Extract

To complement the insights of my co-panelists, I will offer some reflections from the perspective of my UN mandate, on the ongoing global anti-racism debate as it has been structured by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the national and transnational uprisings against systemic racism in law enforcement.

Type
COVID‐19 Part II: Understanding the Disparate Impact on Marginalized Communities
Information
Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 114 , 2020 , pp. 381 - 384
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The American Society of International Law.

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References

1 See OHCHR Press Release, Statement on the Protests Against Systemic Racism in the United States, United Nations Special Procedures Mandate Holders (June 5, 2020), at https://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25927&LangID=E.

2 Joseph Hincks, In Solidarity and as a Symbol of Global Injustices, a Syrian Artist Painted a Mural to George Floyd on a Bombed Idlib Building, Time (June 6, 2020), at https://time.com/5849444/george-floyd-mural-idlib-syria.

3 UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, and The Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent Press Release, Urgent Debate of the Human Rights Council on “the Current Racially Inspired Human Rights Violations, Systemic Racism, Police Brutality and the Violence Against Peaceful Protest” (June 17, 2020), at https://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25969&LangID=E.

4 See, e.g., ACLU, Coalition Letter — Request for UN Independent Inquiry into Escalating Situation of Police Violence and Repression of Protests in the United States (June 8, 2020), at https://www.aclu.org/letter/coalition-letter-request-un-independent-inquiry-escalating-situation-police-violence-and?redirect=letter/coalition-letter-request-un-investigation-escalating-situation-police-violence-and-repression.

5 Makau W. Mutua, Savages, Victims, and Saviors: The Metaphor of Human Rights, 42 Harv. Int'l L.J. 201 (2001).

6 See Report of the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racial Intolerance, Reparation for Racial Discrimination, UN Doc. A/74/321 (2019), at https://undocs.org/A/74/321.