Rich states need to do a lot more - Refugee crisis

WE ARE in the middle of the worst refugee crisis since the Second World War, with 60m people forced to flee their homelands because of violence and conflict, as well as natural disasters and grinding, relentless poverty.

Yet, as an analysis by Oxfam shows, it is the poor countries that are shouldering the greatest burden in caring for refugees while the richest nations all but ignore their plight.

Oxfam’s analysis shows that collectively the United Kingdom, United States, China, Japan, Germany, and France hosted 2.1m refugees and asylum seekers last year — just 8.88% of the world total.