The U.N. human rights chief said children should never be held in immigration detention or separated from families.
GENEVA (AN) — The United Nations' top human rights official said she was "appalled" at conditions forced on adults and children held in detention after crossing into the United States from its southern border with Mexico.
Michelle Bachelet, a former president of Chile who has headed the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, or OHCHR, since last September, emphasized on Monday that children should never be held in immigration detention or separated from their families.
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Some 52% of all refugees and others who needed international protection came from Afghanistan, Syria and Ukraine.
Amy Pope will become the first woman to serve as director general of the International Organization for Migration.
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Reporters Without Borders warned that governments' support for press freedom around the world has been shrinking.
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Some pointed to a recent landmark human rights ruling on climate change as a potential use for a Global Plastics Treaty.
