The United Nations Human Rights Council has announced it will hold a debate on racism and police brutality in the United States on Wednesday. This comes in response to a proposal by a group of African countries led by Burkina Faso. The nations recently expressed alarm over “recent incidents of police brutality against peaceful demonstrators defending the rights of Africans and of people of African descent.”
In other international news, the U.S. Embassy in Seoul has removed a large Black Lives Matter banner and Pride flag from the building’s facade. The U.S. ambassador had approved both, but on Monday the State Department ordered them removed.