Twenty one international aid agencies in their report criticised the UN Security Council for failing to implement its resolutions aimed at improving the humanitarian situation in Syria.
The signatories of the report include Oxfam, Save the Children, World Vision International and Syria Relief Network.
Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, and member of the organisation, on Thursday in New York, said the bitter reality was that the Security Council had failed to implement the resolutions.
He said the report indicated that 2014 was the worst year of the crisis.
Egeland said the report found that in spite of the three resolutions adopted by the council in 2014 that demanded an end to violence against civilians and access to humanitarian aid, the situation in Syria had continued to escalate.
“In 2014, more than 76,000 people were killed, bringing to 220,000 the total number of deaths since the conflict began four years ago.
“The number of people living in hard-to-reach areas increased to 4.8 million people last year from 2.3 million in 2013,’’ he said.
Egeland said the report also pointed out that funding for humanitarian aid in Syria and the surrounding countries that bore that brunt of 3.8 million Syrian refugees stood at 57 per cent in 2014 compared to 71 per cent funded in the previous year.
“Last year was the darkest year yet in this horrific war.
“Parties to the conflict have acted with impunity and ignored the Security Council’s demands,’’ he added.
He noted that the Syrian conflict began with nationwide protests against President Bashar al-Assad on March 15, 2011.
The secretary general disclosed that more than 220,000 people had been killed, and 12 million people were now in need of humanitarian assistance.
