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Spokesperson for the UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights: Ravina Shamdasani
Location: Geneva
Date: 5 June 2018
Subject: (1) Egypt, (2) United
States and (3) Ethiopia
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(2) United States
We are deeply concerned that the
zero tolerance policy recently put in place along the US southern border has
led to people caught entering the country irregularly being subjected to
criminal prosecution and having their children – including extremely young
children -taken away from them as a result.
The practice of separating
families amounts to arbitrary and unlawful interference in family life, and is
a serious violation of the rights of the child. While the rights of children
are generally held in high regard in the US, it is the only country in the
world not to have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. We
encourage it to accede to the Convention and to fully respect the rights of all
children. […]
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I work with children separated from caregivers at the
border. What happens is unforgivable.
The policy has a devastating
emotional impact on kids.
By Katie Annand, Vox
June 6, 2018
Helplessness. It’s what I feel
when children are faced with forced separation from their parent or caregiver
at the US border. Anger, sadness, uncertainty, and dismay all follow closely
behind.
I work as an attorney with an
organization called Kids in Need of Defense, or KIND, devoted to working with unaccompanied
children. I hear firsthand stories that illustrate the severe impact of family
separation on children; to say they are terrorized and completely devastated is
an understatement. This new terror is compounded by the trauma already
experienced by these children — the violence, persecution, and other harm they
faced in their home country that caused them to seek protection in the US in
the first place.[...]
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Family Separation at Border May Be
Subject to Constitutional Challenge, Judge Rules
By Miriam Jordan, New York
Times
June 6, 2018
LOS ANGELES — A federal judge in
San Diego on Wednesday refused to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the Trump
administration’s practice of taking children from immigrants when they arrive
at the border to seek asylum, ruling that the “wrenching separation” of
families may violate the Constitution’s guarantees of due process.
“Such conduct, if true, as it is
assumed to be on the present motion, is brutal, offensive, and fails to comport
with traditional notions of fair play and decency,” Judge Dana M. Sabraw of the
Southern District of California wrote in his 25-page opinion.[…]
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A family was separated at the
border, and this distraught father took his own life
That’s when Muñoz “lost it,”
according to one agent, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the
incident.
“The guy lost his s---,” the
agent said. “They had to use physical force to take the child out of his
hands.”
By Nick Miroff, Washington
Post
June 9, 2018
A Honduran father separated from
his wife and child suffered a breakdown at a Texas jail and killed himself in a
padded cell last month, according to Border Patrol agents and an incident
report filed by sheriff’s deputies.
The death of Marco Antonio Muñoz,
39, has not been publicly disclosed by the Department of Homeland Security, and
did not appear in any local news accounts. But according to a copy of a
sheriff’s department report obtained by The Washington Post, Muñoz was found on
the floor of his cell May 13 in a pool of blood with an item of clothing
twisted around his neck.[…]
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