MOSCOW (Sputnik) – During a UN Council meeting on human rights in May in Geneva, the United States’ record on human rights was noted as worsening, including police behavior and a growth in racism and xenophobia.
“We believe that criticism from the international community needs to force the US Administration to turn its attention to the growing swell in human rights issues in the country and solving them. In order to do this, the United States must refrain from its mentor approaches and representation of itself as exclusive and infallible, which is far from reality,” the communique reads.
On Monday, representatives of many UN member states urged the United States to reform its criminal justice system, impose a federal moratorium and eventually outlaw death penalty and close the much-criticized Guantanamo Bay detention camp. They also voiced concern over harsh conditions for those on death row and blamed the country for illegal mass surveillance practices.
