UN High Commissioner for Refugees Urge Global Response

The UN high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi has warned that asylum seekers have become a global phenomenon that requires a global response.

Last year, fewer than 1% of 20 million refugees had been resettled in another nation, He said.

More are fleeing conflict and hardship than at any other time in history.

Mr Grandi was speaking to the Media during a day of special live coverage examining how an age of unprecedented mobility is shaping our world.

Filippo Grandi told the Media that more nations had to help the “few countries” shouldering the burden and that “simply pushing people away won’t work”.