ROME – UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi has pleaded with the international community to tone down the political rhetoric to do with refugees, in a press conference in Rome on Friday.

 “I urge all political forces not to create space for racism,” Mr Grandi said. “I do not accuse anyone, but the language of politics has become very aggressive, not just in Italy, and it can give space for latent tendencies in society to transfer tensions to migrants and refugees.”

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