Donald Trump’s deeply unsettling and disturbing views make him a danger internationally, the UN High Commissioner for Human Right, Zeid Raad al-Hussein, said yesterday.
Al-Hussein cited Trump’s comments on the use of torture and his attitude to vulnerable communities.
The Republican presidential candidate’s campaign has been marked by a number of controversial comments.
Recent crude remarks about women have caused the biggest political fallout.
Overnight President Barack Obama, at a rally for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, condemned those comments, saying: “The guy says stuff that nobody would find tolerable if they were applying for a job at 7-Eleven.”
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Al-Hussein said: “If Donald Trump is elected on the basis of what he has said already and unless that changes, I think it is without any doubt that he would be dangerous from an international point of view.
“I am not keen or intent on interfering in any political campaign within any particular country.
“But when an election could result in an increase in the use lawsof torture or the focus on vulnerable communities in a way that suggests that they may well be deprived of their human rights, then I think it is incumbent to say so.”
During the campaign, Trump had said that “torture works” and had promised to bring back “a lot worse than waterboarding”.
Waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques previously used by US forces on terror suspects have been banned by the Obama administration.
His comments on migrants, Mexicans in particular, have drawn fire from rights activists.
But Al-Hussein’s latest comments are unlikely to change the New York billionaire’s harsh criticism of the United Nations.
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