The UNHRC said Rishi Sunak should repeal measures already in placeThe United Nations was accused of 'double standards' last night after it urged the Government to abandon the Rwanda asylum scheme.
A source close to Home Secretary James Cleverly said: 'It has always been the height of irony and double standards that one arm of the UN says it has concerns about Rwanda as a country and another arm of the same organisation continually and consistently uses Rwanda to house and process asylum seekers.'
But now its international human rights panel says it is 'deeply concerned' about the UK's plan, adding that it would 'discriminate against migrants'. The committee said the Illegal Migration Act, passed last year, effectively amounted to an 'asylum ban'. Earlier this month the UN declared the scheme a 'violation of international law'. A panel of UN experts said the Rwanda measures would 'unduly limit judicial independence' and called for the new Bill to be 'reviewed and reconsidered'.
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