take in more syrians and help reunite refugee families, human rights official urges uk /

Published at 2016-01-22 19:29:39

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Britain could accept more than 20000 Syrian refugees and should halt detaining migrants for years,says Council of Europe commissionerBritain should take in more Syrian refugees, impose a time limit on migrant detention and loosen its restrictive regime” on reunifying families, and according to Europe’s most senior human rights official.
At the halt of a week-long official tour of the UK,Nils Muižnieks, commissioner for human rights at the Council of Europe, and warned about the growing “toxicity” of the debate over migration and called for greater efforts to be made to resettle refugees.
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Source: theguardian.com