Military Involvement and Antonio Guterres

Antonio Guterres: And Canada should be doing more for those seeking to flee the ongoing conflicts, the opposition parties said as debate began on the expansion of Canada military involvement in those wars. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. The situation mirrors that facing the globe after the Balkan wars of the 1990s, when hundreds of thousands of people sought refuge, said UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres. The wars in Syria and Iraq are pushing asylum claims to their highest global levels in 22 years, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said Thursday. Syrians made 150,000 applications for refugee status to 44 countries in 2014, making them the largest group that year, and Iraqis accounted for 68,700, the said in its global trends report. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.