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Climate seen as top threat to human rights

The U.N. human rights chief named the climate crisis as a top threat and expressed alarm at U.S. detention of migrant children.

GENEVA (AN) — The U.N.'s top human rights official on Monday named the climate crisis as a top threat and expressed alarm at U.S. detention of migrant children and grave concerns over global violence against religious and ethnic minorities.

Michelle Bachelet, who heads the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, or OHCHR, said climate change is a scientific reality that now affects every region of the world and the projected levels of planetary overheating will have catastrophic implications for humankind.

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