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UN rights watchdog to tackle migrant misery
11.06.2015 08:02 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
The issue of migrants - along with others that rarely hit the headlines - are set to take centre stage at UN Human Rights Council’s upcoming session, UN Radio says referring to its president Daniel Johnson report made on Wed.
As to Joachim Ruecker, he expected the Council’s member states to pass a European Union call to debate the issue on next week Mon, making it one of the first issues to be tackled.
As to him, it is «most likely» that the Council would support the call for a special debate on migrants.
Ruecker said the global issue of migrants posed a problem to countries of origin, transit and destination and it was time to grapple with root causes.
«No-one who is protected against arbitrary detention, nobody who is protected against torture or violence, nobody who has access to adequate food and water and who is protected against unemployment, so essentially no-one whose basic human rights are respected would risk such dangerous and terrifying journeys as these migrants are risking,» Ruecker emphasized.
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