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In Harlem, deputy UN chief cites equality, non-discrimination as ‘absolutely basic to all human rights’

10 December 2014
On the eve of the worldwide commemoration of Human Rights Day, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Jan Eliasson, today led in New York’s historic Harlem neighborhood, a public reading of the landmark Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Protestors in New York City demonstrate in the wake of the verdict in the case of the police shooting of Missouri teenager Michael Brown (24 November 2014).
Jacques Baudrier

Eric Garner, Michael Brown cases spark ‘legitimate concerns’ about US policing – UN experts

5 December 2014
Grand jury verdicts in the United States which resulted in the decisions to not bring to trial the cases of two unarmed African-American men killed by police forces have sparked “legitimate concerns” regarding policing practices across the country, a group of United Nations human rights experts said today.
Protestors in New York City demonstrate in the wake of the verdict in the case of the police shooting of Missouri teenager Michael Brown (24 November 2014).
Jacques Baudrier

US should respond to public demands for greater police accountability – Ban

4 December 2014
In the wake of a grand jury decision in New York yesterday not to indict a police officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, an unarmed man, in July, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged the United States to do “anything possible to respond to demands of greater accountability.”