U.N. human rights chief 'deeply shocked' by Trump's border detention centers
Donald Trump’s border detention camps are an international scandal, and the United Nations high commissioner for human rights is telling it like it is. “As a paediatrician, but also as a mother and a former head of State, I am deeply shocked that children are forced to sleep on the floor in overcrowded facilities, without access to adequate healthcare or food, and with poor sanitation conditions,” said High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet, a former president of Chile.
“States do have the sovereign prerogative to decide on the conditions of entry and stay of foreign nationals,” Bachelet continued, pushing back at a top Trump administration talking point. “But clearly, border management measures must comply with the State’s human rights obligations and should not be based on narrow policies aimed only at detecting, detaining and expeditiously deporting irregular migrants.”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/8/1870242/-U-N-human-rights-chief-deeply-shocked-by-Trump-s-border-detention-centers
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Bachelet appalled by conditions of migrants and refugees in detention in the US
GENEVA (8 July 2019) - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said on Monday she is appalled by the conditions in which migrants and refugees - children and adults - are being held in detention in the United States of America after crossing the southern border. She stressed that children should never be held in immigration detention or separated from their families.
The High Commissioner stated that several UN human rights bodies have found that the detention of migrant children may constitute cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment that is prohibited by international law.*”
“As a paediatrician, but also as a mother and a former head of State, I am deeply shocked that children are forced to sleep on the floor in overcrowded facilities, without access to adequate healthcare or food, and with poor sanitation conditions,” High Commissioner Bachelet said.
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I swear I'm fatigued by the US & International "Community" inability to move faster on this....
