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UN rights chief: Reparations needed for people facing racism

by Jamey Keaten
| June 29, 2021 12:12 AM

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief, in a landmark report launched after the killing of George Floyd in the United States, is urging countries worldwide to do more to help end discrimination, violence and systemic racism against people of African descent and “make amends” to them — including through reparations.

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