The conflict in Syria has caused the world’s worst refugee crisis for 20 years, with an average of 6,000 people fleeing every day in 2013.  5,000 people are being killed each month. 6.8 million Syrians needed urgent help.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23332527  Nearly 1.8 million refugees registered with the UN had fled Syria since the beginning of the year – an average of 6,000 a day.  “We have not seen a refugee outflow escalate at such a frightening rate since the Rwandan genocide almost 20 years ago,” UN refugee chief Antonio Guterres said. The UN last month said nearly 93,000 people had been killed since the uprising began in March 2011.
The UN’s assistant secretary general for human rights, Ivan Simonovic, told the meeting that some 5,000 lives were being claimed each month, demonstrating “a drastic deterioration of the conflict”.

“In Syria today, serious human rights abuses, war crimes and crimes against humanity are the rule,”
Both sides in Syria of “systematically and in many cases deliberately” failing in their obligation to protect civilians.

“We are not only watching the destruction of a country but also of its people,”