The world is facing the worst refugee crisis in modern times – and the global response has been pitifully inadequate, according to the latest annual report from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Humanitarian groups are calling for a global summit to address the crisis.
Exhausted, sunburned, dehydrated and carrying nothing but a bag of clothes, Syrian refugee Sameh, his wife and his son limp across the dockside in Catania, Italy, after disembarking an Irish navy boat.
They and hundreds of others were rescued this week from rubber dinghies in the Mediterranean Sea.
“Every human on this planet loves their country,” Sameh …read more
Source: Voice of America
