DHAKA: In their battle against ‘terrorists’, countries around the world must root out the injustices that fuel extremism and are used as recruiting tools.

The UN human rights chief said Thursday, reports The Straits Times.

‘The struggle to combat extremist violence must tackle the visions of injustice that fuel it,’ Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Countries needed to examine the ‘experiences of humiliation, inequality and discrimination that may drive, though they do not excuse, the urge to destroy’, he said.

In his annual report to the UN’s highest rights body, Zeid decried a ‘shocking range of violations’ carried out by extremists from the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria in the two countries as well as Libya.

BDST: 1849 HRS, MAR 05, 2015