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By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - Politicians who use derogatory language about refugees and migrants may ultimately be responsible for causing violence, racism and bigotry, U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein warned on Tuesday. Speaking to a packed audience of students and diplomats at Geneva's Graduate Institute, Zeid said politicians may feel they were exercising their freedom of expression responsibly, but such language was not okay, even in the mildest form. "Someone is going to pick up on this term, and down the line in some village somewhere, a family will be murdered because someone thought they had license to visit violence on this particular family because the politician stigmatized them," Zeid said.More...