LIFE

'War on terror' exacts heavy toll on travellers

Business, Imtiaz Muqbil, Published on 25/01/2010

» A report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council last week paints a shocking picture of how the "war on terror" has affected the global movement of people. It says that surveillance, watch-lists, racial profiling and biometrics, "once the exception have now become customary" and warns the situation could get worse unless safeguards are built in now.