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US travel ban: “New policy breaches Washington’s human rights obligations” – UN experts
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US travel ban: “New policy breaches Washington’s human rights obligations” – UN experts

January 31, 2017 FoRB NGO Committee Bureau

GENEVA (1 February 2017) – A group of United Nations human rights experts today said that the Executive Order signed by US President Donald Trump on 27 January 2017 breaches the country’s international human rights obligations, which protect the principles of non-refoulement and non-discrimination based on race, nationality or religion. The Presidential Executive Order bars all nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries -Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen- from entering the US for the next 90 days.

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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 01 February 2017. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.

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