Mr Whitfield said a new ethos of "moral treatment" did not mean a move to modern standards. He said: "Looking back, it seems very dark to us because of the kind of treatments that were used back then.

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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk sounded the alarm on Friday over escalating violence across Sudan’s North Darfur and Kordofan regions, warning of catastrophic consequences for ...

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He said most asylum requests exaggerate conditions in South and Central America in order to gain status in the U.S. Mattingly, the EOIR spokeswoman, defended O'Brien's qualifications and said all ...