National Human Rights Commission : Silence is not dishonesty: The case for trauma-informed migration

National Human Rights Commission : Silence is not dishonesty: The case for trauma-informed migration

**Before a migrant becomes a legal category, they are a human being** The first line of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights does not say *some* members of the human family are entitled to dignity. It says *all*. That word – small, unambiguous, radical – has never been more important to recall than when we talk about migration. Human dignity, as scholar Otto Spijkers puts it, is “*the state or quality of being worthy of honour or respect b…