Trump’s ‘racist hate speech’ sparking human rights violations, UN watchdog warns

UN experts disturbed by the president and US political leaders’ growing use of dehumanising language to target migrants The “racist hate speech” being used by Donald Trump and other US political leaders, along with the country’s intensified crackdowns on migration, has led to “grave human rights violations,” a UN watchdog warned. In a non-binding decision issued this week, the UN‘s committee on the elimination of racial discrimination (CERD) called on the US to uphold its obligations as a sig...

By Ashifa Kassam