Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss the impact of federal immigration enforcement and food assistance cuts on Chicago residents. The event took place during the 50th Session of the Working Group for the Universal Periodic Review and was organized by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Human Rights First.

“We cannot do this alone,” said Mayor Brandon Johnson. “That is why I call on this Council to hold the federal government of the United States to the same standards of accountability you apply elsewhere in the world. No country should be above international law. Human rights are universal—or they are meaningless.”

Mayor Johnson invited UN independent experts to visit C

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