Attorney General Dustin McDaniel will speak today before a United Nations committee in Geneva focused on ending racial discrimination.
McDaniel is part of a U.S. delegation that will address the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and take questions about the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, a treaty that was ratified by the United States in 1994, according to his office.
McDaniel is the first state attorney general asked by the federal government to serve on the delegation to the committee, McDaniel's office said in a news release.
"It is a privilege to be able to provide to international leaders an account of the significant progress we've made in Arkansas to eliminate racial discrimination, specifically in our efforts to offer quality education to all public school students. As an emissary for attorneys general from across the country, I also look forward to highlighting the work that [attorneys general] have done to protect minority borrowers and provide equal access to housing and education," McDaniel said in a statement.
McDaniel will be joined on the delegation by William Bell, the mayor of Birmingham, Ala.; the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York; and representatives from the State Department, Justice Department, Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Homeland Security.
The 18-member committee will release a nonbinding report of observations and recommendations after the hearing, according to the news release.
Metro on 08/13/2014