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A United Nations panel criticized the United States for police brutality, military interrogations and excessive use of force by law enforcement in a report released Friday.
“There are numerous areas in which certain things should be changed for the United States to comply fully with the convention,” said Alessio Bruni, a member of the United Nations Committee Against Torture, referring to U.N. agreements on torture.
The panel released their report just days after violence erupted in Ferguson, Mo., following the announcement of a grand jury’s decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson for shooting and killing unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown.
While the latest U.N. report did not mention Ferguson explicitly, Brown’s parents testified before the committee in Geneva earlier this month. And the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights who oversees the committee on torture, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, raised concerns over “institutionalized discrimination in the U.S.” and added that he was unsure about whether the Ferguson grand jury’s decision complies with international human rights law.
PHOTOS: See the Nation React to the Ferguson Decision
![Hundreds Rally In DC After Grand Jury Decision In Michael Brown Shooting Hundreds of demonstrators, many of them Howard University students, march down the middle of U Street Northwest in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 24, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-michael-brown-national-protests-11.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![No Indictment For Ferguson Officer Protesters gather at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 24, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-michael-brown-national-protests-12.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Protesters demonstrate after the decision by a Missouri grand jury not to indict a white Ferguson police officer in the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Brown, in front of the White House in Washington Protesters demonstrate in front of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 24, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-michael-brown-national-protests-23.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
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![Protesters march up Seventh Avenue in New York. Protesters march near Times Square in New York City on Nov. 24, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-michael-brown-national-protests-02.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Protestors block the freeway during a demonstration in Oakland Protestors block the freeway during a demonstration in Oakland, Calif., on Nov. 24, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-michael-brown-national-protests-17.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
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![Demonstrator sits in front of a street fire during a demonstration following the grand jury decision in the Ferguson, Missouri shooting of Michael Brown, in Oakland, California Flames burn behind a demonstrator in Oakland, Calif., on Nov. 25, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-michael-brown-national-protests-18.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Protesters get down on their knees during a demonstration following the grand jury decision in the Ferguson, Missouri shooting of Michael Brown, in Seattle, Washington Protesters kneel during a demonstration in Seattle on Nov. 24, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-michael-brown-national-protests-22.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Protesters In LA React To Grand Jury Decision In Ferguson Case Protesters lay down to block traffic in the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Rodeo Dr. in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Nov. 24, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-michael-brown-national-protests-08.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Protesters In LA React To Grand Jury Decision In Ferguson Case Protesters block the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Rodeo Dr. in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Nov. 24, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-michael-brown-national-protests-09.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Protests over Ferguson verdict spread nationwide Donald Fields, 37, with daughter Olivia Fields, 9, at a Leimert Park gathering in Los Angeles on Nov. 24, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/michael-brown-ferguson-los-angeles-protest.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
“It is clear that, at least among some sectors of the population, there is a deep and festering lack of confidence in the fairness of the justice and law enforcement systems,” the commissioner said in a statement.
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