UNITED NATIONS — After reviewing information provided by the U.S. government and dozens of nongovernmental organizations, the UN’s Human Rights Committee (HRC) has issued a scathing condemnation of human rights abuses in the U.S. The July 28 HRC report, issued in Geneva, Switzerland, condemns the disenfranchisement of ex-convicts in many U.S. states. Perhaps most notably, … Continue reading UN panel slams U.S. on death penalty, racism