Economics
Denmark Presents Bill Lambasted by UNHCR for Inciting Xenophobia
Migrants, many of them from Syria, walk to police vans after police found them while checking the identity papers of passengers on a train arriving from Germany on Jan. 6, in Padborg, Denmark.
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It’s not often you hear of a Scandinavian government being accused of violating human rights, inciting xenophobia and placing the lives of children at risk. But that’s exactly what’s happening in Denmark.
The UN’s refugee agency says a bill due to be debated in the Danish parliament on Wednesday “could fuel fear, xenophobia and similar restrictions that would reduce –- rather than expand -- the asylum space globally and put refugees in need at life-threatening risks.”