GENEVA – The UN’s human rights chief on Wednesday condemned rich nations for their indifference to waves of global migration, after new figures showed more than 3,400 people died in the Mediterranean this year trying to reach Europe.”The lack of concern that we see in many countries for the suffering and exploitation of such desperate people is deeply shocking,” UN High Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said at the start of talks on the issue in Geneva.He added: “Rich countries must not become gated communities, their people averting their eyes from the bloodstains in the driveway.” A record 348,000 migrants …read more
Source: AsiaOne
