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UN rights chief tells nations to 'Stop denying racism, start dismantling it' Hits: 222 GENEVA--Nations should "start dismantling racism", set up reparations programmes and prosecute law enforcement officials for unlawful killings of people of African descent, the U.N. human rights chief said on Monday. Michelle Bachelet, in a global report sparked by the murder of African American George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis in May 2020, said police use of racial profiling and excessive force is entrenched in much of North America, Europe and Latin America. Structural racism crea...

Baronness Helena Kennedy will lead the group (John Phillips/PA) Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Legal, gender and human-rights experts have been appointed to a working group to consider whether misogynistic behaviour should become an offence under Scots law. The Scottish Government’s Hate Crime Bill would allow misogynistic harassment to become a standalone offence while also adding age prejudice to existing aggrav...

Legal, gender and human-rights experts have been appointed to a working group to consider whether misogynistic behaviour should become an offence under Scots law. The Scottish Government's Hate Crime Bill would allow misogynistic harassment to become a standalone offence while also adding age prejudice to existing aggravating factors. Human-rights lawyer Baroness Helena Kennedy has been asked to lead a taskforce that will examine the case for making misogyny an offence. Members of the group have now been appointed ahead of its first meeting later this month. Human-rights lawyer Baroness Helen...