Abstract:
Many Central American families arrived to US illegally through US –Mexico border
from last several years to seek asylum from the United States. In order to discourage
this illegal immigration and to reduce the burden of processing asylum, The
Department of Justice of United States implemented Family Separation policy under
Trump administration on May 07th 2018. Under this policy, when anyone crossed the
US-Mexico border illegally with their children, may separate and parents will arrest
while children will take for the custody and care. Soon after implemented this family
separation policy in US, on July 19th 2018 United States announced their withdrawal
from the UN Human Rights Council by saying that the Council has chronic bias
against Israel. As the main human rights protection body in the world the UNHRC
failed to address the US family separation immigration policy with their withdrawal
from the Council even their policy violating many human rights of those immigrants.
The article will discuss the reason for withdrawal from the Council, the violation of
human rights regarding the policy and the impact of the US withdrawal from the
Council for the separated families. The methodology of the study is composed of
qualitative data. Scholarly articles, publications, research papers and public
statements used as the secondary data. Because of the family separation policy
violating many fundamental human rights, many countries raised their voice against
the policy the US created their own human rights panel to address the family
separation policy. The paper concludes that through the strong human rights
implementation body world can address such issues when violating human rights
throughout the world regardless the states’ power status.
