United Nations and Syrian Refugees

Syrian refugees: The agency says over 200,000 Syrians and Iraqis have sought asylum in some 44 countries around the world in the last year, according to Metro News. In 2013, the federal government promised to resettle 1,300 Syrian refugees and have only just met that target and New data being released by the United Nations today show the wars in Syria and Iraq are pushing global asylum claims to their highest levels in 22 years. And that on top of the hundreds of thousands of refugees from the ongoing conflicts that the UN has been seeking to resettle itself. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.