ACL has welcomed the Australian Government’s announcement that it will offer asylum to 4000 people from the crisis in Syria and Iraq. “The Government is responding with compassion in the midst of unspeakable barbarity,” ACL Managing Director Lyle Shelton said. Mr Shelton noted that the 4000 places were within the current 13,700 annual humanitarian intake and hoped the Government would continue to monitor the situation and assess Australia’s capacity to do more.“We are a generous nation and while 13,700 refugees is high on a per capita basis by world standards, this only scratches the surface of the need.” Hundreds of thousands of Christians and other religious minorities had been driven from their homes by terrorist Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq. “We are living in extraordinary times and extraordinary generosity will be required before this crisis is resolved,” Mr Shelton said.
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 22:21:11 +0000
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