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Rwanda: UN also urges London not to deport migrants
The UN has appealed to the British government to "reconsider its plan" to deport migrants to Rwanda, after the measure passed in the UK parliament.
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The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, and the UN refugee chief, Filippo Grandi, on Tuesday urged the UK government to “take concrete steps to address irregular refugee and migrant flows, based on international cooperation and in full respect of international human rights law”.
In a similar vein, the Council of Europe on Tuesday called on the UK government to scrap its plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda.
“The UK government must refrain from deporting people under the Rwanda scheme and reverse the assault on the independence of the judiciary that this Bill represents,” the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, said in a statement.
The legislation was approved by parliament late on Monday night, after months of wrangling between the House of Commons and the House of Lords over amendments added by peers and rejected by MPs.
Home Secretary James Cleverly said in a video posted on social media that the legislation will “stop people abusing the law, using spurious human rights claims to block removals, and makes it clear that the UK parliament is sovereign”.
“We are now working at pace to make the first flights happen.”
The government’s Bill was intended to make Rwanda a safe destination after the UK Supreme Court ruled the original plan unlawful.
In November last year, the Supreme Court ruled that the African nation was not a safe destination because asylum seekers could be sent back to the countries they had fled.
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