LONDON — Ten countries accounting for 2.5% of world GDP shelter more than half the world’s refugees, Amnesty International said Tuesday as it castigated what it called the selfishness of wealthy nations.In a report on the plight faced by the world’s 21-million refugees, the London-based human rights body lamented that countries immediately neighbouring crisis zones bear the brunt of the global refugee problem.Amnesty reported that 10 countries shelter 56% of refugees and proposed a solution for countries to find homes for 10% of the refugees every year."A small number of countries have been left to do far too much just because they are neighbours to a crisis," said Amnesty secretary general Salil Shetty, presenting the report titled Tackling the global refugee crisis: from shirking to sharing responsibility."That situation is inherently unsustainable, exposing the millions fleeing war and persecution in countries like Syria, South Sudan, Afghanistan and Iraq to intolerable misery an...
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