It is now the greatest movement of the uprooted that the world has ever known. Steve Symonds, refugee programme director at Amnesty, said: “Funding is great and very much needed, but it’s not going to tackle the central point of some sharing of responsibility. Just one sixth of the cash pledged at a summit hosted by David Cameron in London in February to tackle the refugee crisis in Syria has materialised. The Geneva Convention of 1951 defined refugees, accorded them specific rights, and prohibited their forcible return from countries of refuge. Importantly, the summit builds upon these key legal instruments to meet the challenges of refugee crises in today’s world, and garnering more global cooperation and responsibility-sharing.”

Source: The Guardian September 17, 2016 19:52 UTC