UN concerns aired for minorities in US

Independent United Nations human rights experts expressed concern on Tuesday over what they called the disproportionate impact of abortion restrictions and gun violence on racial minorities in the United States.

In the report, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, or CERD, said the US Supreme Court decision ending a federal right to abortion will affect racial and ethnic minorities more.

They are "disproportionally impacted by higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, higher risk of unwanted pregnancies and lack of means to overcome socioeconomic barriers to access safe abortion", the report said.