UN Urges Tunisia to End Hate Speech against Migrants

African migrants sit outside their tents at a temporary camp, near the headquarters of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in Tunis, Tunisia March 22, 2023. (Reuters)

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) urged Tunisia’s authorities on Tuesday to end the “racist hate speech”, especially against African migrants from the south of the Sahara.

In a statement, the Committee said it was alarmed by the remarks made by President Kais Saied in late February, that “hordes of illegal migrants” arriving from south of the Sahara were the source “of violence and unacceptable crimes”.