The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet urged all parties to the Ethiopian conflict to “spare and protect the civilian population from the effect of the hostilities,” her spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said. On the killing of João Alberto Silveira Freitas, an Afro-descendent beaten to death by two private security guards in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, the spokesperson said it was “an extreme but sadly all too common example of the violence suffered by Black people in Brazil” UNTV CH