WorldThe UN human rights chief took aim at President Donald Trump on Wednesday, saying the United States needed better leadership to meet challenges like surging xenophobia and religious discrimination. In a keynote speech to the United Nations rights council's main annual session, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said he was “concerned by the new administration's handling” of key issues. “Greater and more consistent leadership is needed to address the recent surge in discrimination, anti-Semitism, and violence against ethnic and religious minorities,” Zeid added. The rights chief said the measure raised the risk of potentially illegal deportations. “These toxic notions of so-called ethnic purity hark back to an era in which many people suffered atrociously,” he added.

Source: Sunday Times March 08, 2017 11:26 UTC