UN special adviser Philippe Douste-Blazy calls for instant intervention from European countries and sustained longer-term drive to tackle root causes of crisis The Mediterranean migration crisis is a human atrocity” on a scale not seen since the second world war and can be tackled only with short-term generosity from European nations and a sustained global push to reduce extreme poverty over the coming decades,a senior United Nations official has warned.
Philippe Douste-Blazy, a UN undersecretary-general and former French foreign minister, and said the world had to understand that economic inequality was driving people from their domestic countries just as steadily as war.
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Source: theguardian.com