THE UK government – oftentimes self-proclaimed champion of human rights – has been found guilty of modern-day slavery and gross suppression of the rights of children in a scathing report by the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council.
Migration is one of the most divisive topics in the body politic of the UK. Not long ago, Downing Street had resolved to whisk away to Rwanda in east Africa hordes of migrants in pursuit of better life-chances in the UK.
It took a court order to put an abrupt halt to the widely condemned government policy that many human rights bodies had argued was at variance with civilised norms and practices.
But so determined is the government