UK failing to address systemic racism against black people, warn UN experts
by Aamna Mohdin and Amelia Gentleman from World news | The Guardian on (#688Y4)
Working group of experts on people of African descent calls for halt on use of joint enterprise and strip search
The law is breaking children': black people in UK tell UN of daily injustices
A UN body has written to the UK government to express very extreme concern" about its failure to address structural, institutional and systemic racism" against people of African descent in Britain.
The UN working group of experts on people of African descent called for an immediate and unconditional moratorium on the use of joint enterprise, warning it was leading to the disproportionate imprisonment of black adolescents.
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