Anti-immigrant riots, tear gas, border barriers and hate crimes won't deter the thousands of refugees from Syria and other war-torn regions, a U.N. special envoy on human rights warned Tuesday after days of violence against migrants seeking to reach safety in Europe.
The United Nation's refugee agency also put European states on notice that there is no end in sight to the influx of migrants arriving in record numbers to the continent after perilous sea voyages to escape turmoil in the Middle East and Africa.
Thousands of men, women and children have been arriving daily to the southern reaches of Europe, many entering through Greece and making their way northward through Macedonia and Serbia to Hungary and other nations in the more affluent north of the 28-nation European Union.