Pillay: Canada has a duty to act on America's egregious border policies

The separation from their parents and detention of children in “cages” in Texas by U.S. officials was indefensible. It was also something else: torture.
Torture is described in Article 1 of the UN Convention Against Torture as including psychological torture, “intentionally inflicted” to “punish” an individual for the acts of another (in this case, the parent seeking asylum or crossing the border from Mexico and South America). It is most certainly &ldquo