United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has once again criticized western countries for their response to the global refugee crisis, describing it as a ?crime against humanity.?

?We now have over two million refugees; we could not have left them under the bombs,? Erdo?an said June 21 at a meeting in Istanbul. 

Hollywood actress and director Angelina Jolie on June 20 described a spiralling global refugee crisis as an "explosion of human suffering" whose causes the international community refuses to confront.

Turkish President Erdo?an meets with Hollywood star Jolie, and U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Guterres to mark the World Refugees Day Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an met June 20 with Hollywood star and U.N.'s Goodwill Ambassador for refugees, Angelina Jolie, and U.N.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie has arrived in Turkey's southeastern province of Mardin Hollywood star and UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie has arrived in Turkey's southeastern province of Mardin to visit Syrian refugees.

French President Francois Hollande said June 19 that he thought commitments by individual EU member states offered a better way of resettling African and Middle Eastern migrants rather than the imposition of national quotas by Brussels. 

The decision of the Hungarian government to build a 4-meter-high barbed wire fence to stop the flow of illegal migrants "is not the solution."

The U.N.?s refugee chief on June 18 urged the international community, including Western states, to open up their borders and follow Turkey?s example in hosting Syrian and Iraqi refugees.

Serbia is a democratic country in the heart of Europe and should not close its borders, UNHCR Representative in Serbia Hans Friedrich Schodder has said.

He added that it was "good that the country is not planning to close its border with Macedonia."

Conflicts and violence across the world have increased the number of people forced to leave their homes to the record 60 million on a global scale, as reported by the UN.

The number of people going away from their homes has increased by 8,3 million since 2013, marking the biggest increase in history, according to a recent UNHCR global trends report, entitled ''World at War''.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic told the Serbian public broadcaster RTS on June 17 that he was "surprised and shocked" by the Hungarian decision to fence off the border to stop migrants from entering the country.