United Nations independent experts on human rights today voiced concern over the reported death onboard a flight of a man being deported from the United Kingdom to Angola, in the custody of guards for a private security company, after his appeal to remain in the European country was rejected.

Noting that process to reunify Cyprus has been slow recently, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged the Mediterranean island’s leaders to achieve concrete advances in their talks to maintain momentum in the peace process.

Greek prisons are congested and the judiciary under stress as hundreds of irregular newcomers flow into the country daily via neighbouring Turkey, a United Nations independent human rights expert said today, urging the European Union to help Greece deal with the problem of migrants.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today warned Europe against a new “politics of polarization,” discrimination and intolerance over immigration, with Muslim immigrants as primary targets, as he delivered major addresses before two of the continent’s leading bodies.