GENEVA (Sputnik) — The international community must show solidarity and share responsibility in settling the ongoing massive refugee crisis in the European Union, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said Wednesday.
"In the meantime we must act. We cannot leave the neighboring countries continue to bear the brunt of this refugee crisis. The world must show solidarity and share this responsibility," Grandi said in his address during a high-level meeting on global responsibility to admit Syrian refugees.
He added that the humanitarian aid to refugees fleeing war-torn regions remained inadequate, especially in the fields of education and income generation.
Some 90 percent of Syrian refugees live under national poverty lines in Lebanon and Jordan with over 50 percent of children out of school education, according to UN and the World Bank estimates.
Europe has been beset by a massive refugee crisis, with hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants fleeing their home countries in the Middle East and North Africa to escape violence and poverty.
