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Mass deportation from Algeria of migrants highlighted by UN human rights panel

Mass deportation from Algeria of migrants highlighted by UN human rights panel

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Algeria’s reluctance to address its violent past has meant that it has “stepped back” on basic human rights, the UN Human Rights Committee said on Thursday, in Geneva.

In its report on the country – which endured years of civil war for much of the 1990s – the panel expressed concern for victims of enforced disappearance during that period, along with a lack of freedom of assembly today.

The Committee also called for action on the reported mass deportation and abandonment of around 13,000 migrants in the Sahara desert since April last year, as a member of the UN panel José Manuel Santos Pais, explained to UN News’s Daniel Johnson.

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Algeria’s reluctance to address its violent past has meant that it has “stepped back” on basic human rights, the UN Human Rights Committee said on Thursday, in Geneva.

In its report on the country the panel expressed concern for victims of enforced disappearance during the civil war in the 1990s, the lack of freedom of assembly today and called for action on the reported mass deportation and abandonment of around 13,000 migrants in the Sahara desert since April last year.

José Manuel Santos Pais, member of the UN Human Rights Committee, spoke to UN News’s Daniel Johnson.

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Daniel Johnson, UN News - Geneva
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UN Geneva/Daniel Johnson