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UN experts today expressed concern over Tunisias allegedly discriminatory treatment of sub-Saharan migrants and urged the authorities to take urgent action to end collective expulsions and protect the human rights of all migrants.Collective expulsions are prohibited by international law the UN experts said. Expelling migrants refugees and asylum seekers without carrying out an individual and objective assessment of the risks of human rights violations to which they are exposed in the event of return amounts to refoulement prohibited by international human rights law. human rights .Experts contacted the Tunisian government in March expressing concern over reports of racist treatment of sub-Saharan migrants and mass expulsions targeting sub-Saharan migrants as well as violence and racist hate speech including including from the countrys top leaders and law enforcement officials.We call on the authorities to immediately halt any further deportations and to continue and expand humanitarian access to a dangerous area on the Tunisian-Libyan border where many people including pregnant women and children have already been deported they said.The principle of non-refoulement enshrined in international human rights law applies to all forms of deportation regardless of nationality or migration status the UN experts said. They pointed out that the targeting of migrants and asylum seekers on the basis of their skin color is also a violation of the prohibition of racial discrimination under international law.We are also very concerned about reports of racist hate speech in the country and violence against migrants in Sfax including by law enforcement officers said the experts. Racial hate speech that constitutes incitement to discrimination has real consequences including violence. UN experts have called on the Tunisian government to take immediate action to end racist hate speech in the country protect sub-Saharan migrants from violence investigate reported acts of violence and ensure access to justice and remedies for victims as also recommended by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in its statement of March 31 2023.The experts are in contact with the authorities on these issues.
