The UN has warned the United States over its alarming rise in ethnic violence

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A United Nations committee has issued a formal warning to the United States and its president, Donald Trump, over recent racial violence in the country, indicating serious concern that conflicts like the recent one in Charlottesville, Virginia, will spread.

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has issued an “early warning,” the first step in its system of measures to prevent tensions from escalating and inform member states of the urgent need to address problems. It criticized the US for “failure at the highest political level to unequivocally reject racist violent events.”

The statement, though it doesn’t say so explicitly, appears to refer to Trump’s widely criticized response to the violent clashes on Aug. 12 between white-supremacist groups and counter-protesters in Charlottesville. Trump called the fighting an “egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides,” suggesting that the counter-protesters were as much to blame as the white supremacists.

One woman, Heather Heyer, was killed that day, when a man with neo-Nazi sympathies drove a car into a crowd of counter-protesters. Shortly after, a group of UN experts voiced its concern over the rise of racism and xenophobia in the US, which critics of Trump say he emboldened through his tepid response to Charlottesville.

https://qz.com/1060428/donald-trump-and-the-us-have-received-a-formal-warning-about-racist-violence-from-the-un/

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1. Thanks for nothing, DT. nt