Tima Kurdi and Humanitarian Crisis

humanitarian crisis: The heartbreaking photo of a drowned Alan — wearing a bright-red T-shirt and blue shorts — has put a human face to the humanitarian crisis, both globally and in Canada, according to Vancouver Observer. The European Union failed Monday to reach agreement on a plan to share 120,000 refugees arriving in Italy, Greece and Hungary. Tima Kurdi travelled from her home in Coquitlam, B.C., to Brussels, where she spoke Monday in front of a wall that now includes a painting of her dead three-year-old nephew, Alan, telling reporters that Europe must not slam the door on desperate refugees."I feel this little Alan was a message from God to wake up the world," Kurdi said. "And I am the messenger here."The Kurdi boys — Alan, and five-year-old Ghalib — and their mother were among at least 12 migrants, including five children, who drowned Sept. 2 when two boats carrying them to the Greek island of Kos capsized. Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said after chairing a meeting of EU interior ministers in Brussels that "it is premature for the Council to take a decision today."The Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary had been among the nations opposed to the refugee sharing plan leading up to the emergency meeting. Kurdi said higher fences aren't what is needed."They flee the war, from dangers, from dying, and you put the fence ... they can and should build a longer table, not a higher fence," she said. Hungarian police have rolled a train car covered on one end with seven coils of razor wire up to the border with Serbia, where the improvised obstacle was used to cap a strategic gap in the country border fence. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.