Nations need to open borders to Syrian refugees

More nations need to open their doors to Syrian refugees, according to three researchers at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public in a letter to the editor published in the New York Times January 11, 2015. Josyann Abisaab, Satchit Balsari, research fellow, and Kathleen Hamill, visiting scholar, said of the current plight of the refugees: “A truly global effort is needed to alleviate the biggest humanitarian calamity of the 21st century.”

Read the letter: The Syrian Refugee Crisis

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