Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

The UK Government’s policies exacerbate discrimination, stoke xenophobic sentiment and further entrench racial inequality, the UN’s expert on racism and human rights says in a new report.

Businesses based in Europe continue to export fuel containing extremely high levels of sulphur and other toxic substances that would not be allowed for sale in their home countries, but continue to be sold on the African market.

A UN expert who visited Julian Assange in a London prison says he fears his human rights could be seriously violated if he is extradited to the United States, and condemned the "deliberate and concerted abuse inflicted for years" on the Wikileaks co-founder.

The UN experts said that should the decree enter into force, it would seriously undermine the human rights of migrants, including asylum seekers, as well as victims of torture, of trafficking in persons and of other serious human rights abuses.