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Wednesday 25 Nov 2015 - 10:19 Makkah mean time-13-2-1437
Pic: UN News Center
New York (IINA) – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned Balkan States on Tuesday that border restrictions based on a refugee’s or migrant’s nationality infringed human rights, with the United Nations refugee agency reporting that 1,000 people are already stranded, 60 of them on hunger strike and 11 reportedly stitching up their mouths in protest.
“Profiling asylum seekers on the basis of their alleged nationality infringes the human right of all people to seek asylum, irrespective of their nationality and to have their individual cases heard,” Ban said in a statement attributable to his spokesperson on the latest reaction to the huge influx of people fleeing fighting in their homelands.
Under restrictions imposed last week at borders of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia with Greece and Serbia, only Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis are being let through while others are being blocked.
“The Secretary-General calls on all states in the region to respond effectively to the mounting humanitarian challenges and to ensure that their policies on screening asylum seekers are in line with international refugee and human rights law,” the statement said.
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