"At the behest of all 54 African countries, the U.N. Human Rights Council held an 'urgent debate' June 16 to discuss racism and police brutality, with a special focus on the U.S. Earlier, the head of the African Union, Moussa Faki, publicly condemned George Floyd's killing.
Floyd's killing was vile, and African countries are justified to criticize it. But the selective outrage of singling out the U.S. for special scrutiny-the urgent debate at the U.N. Human Rights Council was only the fifth of its kind in 14 years-demonstrates either a moral blind spot or extreme cynicism.
The African states calling for the extraordinary measure should have first reflected on how poorly African governments can treat Africans.
Hereditary slavery still exists in Mali, Mauritania, and Niger. People smugglers in Libya auction off black Africans. Fourteen of the 18 countries the Global Slavery Index ranks as worst in the world at fighting slavery are African.
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Focusing on the practices of countries like the U.S. at the behest of states with far worse records is par for the course in the Human Rights Council. Since its founding in 2006, the council has been a profoundly political body. It exhibits extraordinary bias against Israel, with nearly half of the condemnatory resolutions passed by the council focused on that country..."