ISLAMABAD: Amnesty International says the global community has failed to protect refugees from Syria, calling on world countries to provide more resettlement opportunities for the displaced Syrians.
"The shortfall in the number of resettlement places for refugees offered by the international community is truly shocking," said Sherif Elsayed-Ali, Amnesty International's head of refugee and migrants' rights, on Friday, Press TV reported.
"Nearly 380,000 people have been identified as in need of resettlement by the UN refugee agency, yet just a tiny fraction of these people have been offered sanctuary abroad," he added.
Elsayed-Ali went on to say that the "World Food Program announcement earlier this week that is has been forced to suspend food aid to 1.7 million refugees due to a funding crisis underscores the abysmal response of the international community."
According to statistics, around 3.8 million Syrian refugees currently live in Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and Egypt.
Syria has been grappling with a deadly crisis since March 2011. The violence fuelled by Takfiri groups has so far claimed the lives of over 200,000 people.
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