A former UN relief coordinator says Iraqi and Syrian refugees pose the biggest humanitarian crisis of our generation

The World | Sep 1, 2014
Jan Egeland says the current crisis caused by the Syrian civil war affects far more people than the notorious violence in Rwanda and the Balkans more than a decade ago. And the former UN official says no nation is addressing it — from the West to the Arab World, or powers like China and Russia.

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