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Expert group criticises systemic racism in Switzerland
Black people in Switzerland face everyday discrimination as well serious racial profiling by the police, a United Nations working group has said.
January 26, 2022
After a 10-day fact-finding mission, the group said in a statementExternal link on Wednesday that it was “concerned about the prevalence of racial discrimination and the human rights situation of people of African descent in Switzerland”.
A 59-point document outlined the various problems faced by black people in the country, including what it called “shocking reports of police brutality and the expectation of impunity for police misconduct, extending over decades”.
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/expert-...rland/47295496
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