International Development Committee wants Britain to accept 3000 Syrian children as refugees

While praising Britain’s efforts to mitigate the suffering of Syrian children, the International Development Committee says much more must be done and it is calling on Prime Minister David Cameron to urge fellow G7 leaders of France, Japan and Italy to match the efforts of UK. It is of the opinion that thousands more Syrian refugee children should be allowed to settle in the UK in order to protect them from exploitation.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 5 January 2016.

It may be recalled that the death of a young refugee boy, who washed up drowned on a Turkish beach, brought into focus the world's attention on the extent of the Syria migrant crisis. Following the exposure, the media tracked the journeys of the hundreds of thousands of migrants, many of them Syrians, who were fleeing their homes and, often paying exorbitant sums to traffickers to make the potentially deadly sea crossings to southern Europe from Turkey.
Britain has agreed to take in 20,000 Syrian refugees from the refugee camps in neighboring countries like Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. However, it has not committed on the million plus that have made their own way to Europe. The International Development Committee is now pushing the Government to do more to extend help, and in particular to the unaccompanied children who are vulnerable to exploitation like child labour, prostitution and human trafficking.

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