"EU leaders have taken one positive step forward by agreeing to share responsibility for 120,000 asylum-seekers. But this alone won't solve the humanitarian emergency unfolding on Europe's doorstep.
Ignoring loud alarm bells rung by Amnesty and others, politicians are failing to tackle the world's worst refugee crisis since World War II.
Right now, thousands of children, men and women are being forced to risk death or walk wearily from one heavily fortified EU border to another searching for sanctuary.
The writing has been on the wall for years: brutal regimes, raging conflicts and deep poverty across the Middle East and Africa are forcing millions of people to migrate, leaving everything they know and love behind.
Most refugees stay close to their home countries, but some will try to reach safety in Europe – despite its billion-Euro efforts to keep people out, and often at an extortionate human and financial cost.
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