’Racist’ Australia compared to Apartheid South Africa by UN Human Rights commissioner | Daily Mail Online
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The United Nations’ top human rights watchdog has attacked Australia’s tough refugee policies and the treatment of outback Aborigines, saying there was a strong undercurrent of racism in the country.
According to UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay, long-standing policies of locking up asylum seekers had ’cast a shadow over Australia’s human rights record’, and appeared to be completely arbitrary.
’I come from South Africa and lived under this, and am every way attuned to seeing racial discrimination,’ she said.