UN experts warn of racism in the United States

A group of United Nations (UN) human rights experts said Wednesday that racism and xenophobia are growing in the United States, and racist incidents at the weekend in Charlottesville are the latest example of this trend. The information is from the EFE Agency .

"Acts and speeches of this kind must be condemned without hot cloths, and hate crimes investigated and their perpetrators punished," they demanded in a statement issued in Geneva. "We are alarmed by the proliferation and saliency of groups that promote racism and hatred. .

A neo-Nazi follower killed a woman on Saturday and wounded several people in Charlottesville, Virginia, by firing her vehicle at protesters protesting the presence of white supremacists in the city.

Other evidence of the worrying situation in the United States is the rise in anti-African demonstrations, said the UN rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, Mutuma Ruteere; And the chairmen of the Working Group on African Peoples, Gumedze knows; And the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Anastasia Crickley.

In the case of Charlottesville, the experts emphasized that the extreme right-wing protesters launched  slogans  against black and immigrant and anti-Semitic people.

The three also recalled that similar incidents have occurred recently in California, Oregon, New Orleans and Kentucky, "which demonstrates the geographical extent of the problem."

"The Government must take all effective measures urgently to control the manifestations that incite racial violence and understand how they affect social cohesion," they said.

Specialists also expressed their regret over the deaths of two police officers after the collision of their helicopter as they monitored the situation in Charlottesville.