George Floyd’s Murder

Autor: Moosa Akefi Ghaziani, Farnaz Raees Kazemi
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Review of Human Rights. 7:48-66
ISSN: 2520-7032
2520-7024
DOI: 10.35994/rhr.v7i1.188
Popis: George Floyd’s murder by the police in Minneapolis provoked widespread political agitation across the country. It once again highlighted the problematic racial dimension of policing and eggregious violation of human rights commitments on the part of the government. In this article we explore how the human rights law and racism in the United States interact with each other? We employ qualitative research based on descriptive-analytical method and divide the article in four parts: a brief introduction, a historical background of racism, a conceptual comprehension of racial discrimination and a brief survey of the international human rights instruments against racism, and the onground situation of racial discrimination in the country. We conclude that the process of negotiation between human rights law and racism in the United States is far from settled yet.
Databáze: OpenAIRE