At an event held by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom on the refugee crisis, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said the world must take more responsibility because a refugee crisis exists not only in Syria, but also in Burma, Afghanistan, Sudan, Yemen and Iraq.
The situation in Syria has turned into a humanitarian crisis that European countries have neglected to adequately address.
"Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan are the countries which mostly shoulder the burden of the Syrian refugees," Guterres said.
"If the international community continues to neglect refugees with these three countries, it will become inevitable for the problem to grow bigger."
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28/10/15
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Rescuers plucked more than a thousand migrants from overcrowded boats near Libya Wednesday morning, Italy's coast guard said, the most reported saved in a single day in three weeks...
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About 140,000 have reached Italy this year in boats from Africa out of a total of about 700,000 who have come to Europe by sea, mostly through Greece.
British, Irish, Slovenian and German navy ships took part in Wednesday's rescues along with the Italian coast guard and a ship operating under the auspices of European Union border agency Frontex.
Italy and Greece have struggled to cope with arrivals as civil war in Syria and deprivation and human rights abuses in Africa has driven the biggest wave of migration towards Europe since World War II.
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