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The United Nations was accused of 'double standards' last night after it urged the Government to abandon the Rwanda asylum scheme.
The international body's human rights committee called on Rishi Sunak to drop the programme – even though the UN itself sends refugees to Rwanda.
The United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) said Rishi Sunak should repeal measures already in place to allow migrants to be handed a one-way ticket to the east African nation.
A source close to Home Secretary James Cleverly said: 'It has always been the height of irony and double standards that one arm of the UN says it has concerns about Rwanda as a country and another arm of the same organisation continually and consistently uses Rwanda to house and process asylum seekers.'
The separate UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) sent more than 2,000 asylum seekers from Libya to Rwanda aboard 15 evacuation flights between 2019 and the end of last year.
The United Nations was accused of 'double standards' last night after it urged the Government to abandon the Rwanda asylum scheme
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