UN rights chief warns over rise of 'racist' politics in EU

June 10, 2014 18:26

UN human rights chief Navi Pillay expressed alarm today at the rise in extremist, racist rhetoric in Europe, warning that anti-immigrant language can spark serious rights abuses.

"I am disturbed by the recent increase across the political spectrum in several states in Western Europe of a discourse rooted in anti-immigrant and racist sentiment and religious intolerance," Pillay told diplomats as she opened a UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva.

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