GENEVA (HRNW) – The coronavirus pandemic s disproportionate impact on ethnic minorities, and protests triggered by George Floyd s death, have laid bare “endemic inequalities” in the United States, the UN rights chief said Tuesday, urging action.
Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, warned that the COVID-19 crisis has had a worse impact on racial and ethnic minorities in the United States and a range of other countries.
“This virus is exposing endemic inequalities that have too long been ignored,” she said in a statement.
Similar inequalities were also fuelling the widespread protests over the police killing in Minneapolis last week of Floyd, an unarmed black man.
“In the United States, protests triggered by the killing of George Floyd are highlighting not only police violence against people of colour, but also inequalities in health, education, employment and endemic racial discrimination,” Bachelet said.
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