Antonio Guterres: Human Rights Violations

human rights violations: "In Syria today, serious human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity are the rule," said Ivan Simonovic, the assistant secretary-general for human rights, told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday, according to Times Colonist. U.N. refugee chief Antonio Guterres said two-thirds of the nearly 1.8 million Syrian refugees known to the agency have fled since the beginning of 2013, an average of over 6,000 daily and An estimated 5,000 Syrians are dying every month in the country's civil war and refugees are fleeing at a rate not seen since the 1994 Rwanda genocide, U.N. officials said Tuesday. He added that "the extremely high rate of killings ... demonstrates the drastic deterioration of this conflict." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.