World leaders accused of shameful failure over refugee crisis
Scathing Amnesty report says leaders guilty of neglect as millions face misery in ‘worst refugee crisis of our era’
Syrians cross broken border fences to enter Turkish territory illegally. Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images
Millions of refugees have been condemned to a life of misery in the worst displacement crisis since the second world war, a leading human rights organisation has said in a scathing report (pdf) that blames world leaders’ neglect for the deaths of thousands of civilians fleeing wars in the Middle East and Africa.
