Ghetto risk to asylum seekers, says group

GOVERNMENT policies are exposing asylum seekers to isolation and ghetto-isation, the State’s official human rights watchdog said yesterday.

The Human Rights Commission (HRC) has lodged a series of complaints with a high-level UN body, which will quiz representatives of the Irish Government in Geneva next week.

The UN Committee on Racial Discrimination will examine Ireland’s record in implementing the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD).