The United Nations Human Rights Council expressed concern Monday over the excessive use of force by police officers in the United States against minorities.
The group made its comments in the context of an annual review.
The U.S. also faced calls to work toward abolishing the death penalty, closing Guantanamo Bay and to ensure safeguards against abuses of Internet surveillance, the Associated Press reported.
It is the second review of the U.S.'s human rights record — the first was in 2010, when the country
accepted 171 recommendations out of 240.
Human Rights Watch says the U.S. has "largely failed" to follow through on the 2010 recommendations. These included increasing efforts to eliminate the use of excessive force by law enforcement officials against minorities, and to study racial disparities in the imposition of the death penalty.
"The U.S. has been strong on process and short on substance," Antonio Ginatta, U.S. advocacy director at Human Rights Watch said in a statement, ahead of the latest review.
