EVENT: Anti-Black racism & police brutality: defenders’ expectations from the Human Rights Council

Watch a conversation with human rights defenders working on police violence and/or systemic racism! Along with discussing the specific country-contexts including how patterns of systemic racism affect women and LGBTI+ persons, they discuss the implementation of the Human Rights Council resolution 43/1 that mandated the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights with preparing a report on systemic racism and police violence against Africans and people of African descent.

Panellists:

- Salimah Hankins, U.S. Human Rights Network
- Mireille Fanon-Mendès France, Fondation Frantz Fanon
- Douglas Belchior, Uneafro Brasil and Coalizão Negra por Direitos
- Rodje Malcom, Jamaicans for Justice
- Esther Mamadou, Implementation Team for the International Decade for People of African Descent Spain
- Deji Adeyanju, Concerned Nigerians
+ Videos by Dayana Blanco Acendra,Founder and Director General of Ilex Acción Jurídica (Colombia), and Mothers against Police Brtuality (USA)

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