"As another year has passed in which more and more Syrians suffered the consequences of conflict in their country, all European states are urged to be more generous and assume their responsibility for providing effective protection to those in need," Muiznieks said in a statement.
European countries have 2 reset their approach 2 #syrianrefugees http://t.co/h3d2C1GkoD @Refugees @hrw @ecre @amnesty @IOM_news @ProAsyl
— Nils Muiznieks (@CommissionerHR) 3 февраля 2015
He added that Europe had failed to "rise to the challenge" and was neglecting the refugee crisis.
According to the council, the European Union, considered one of the wealthiest regions in the world, has taken in only 6 percent of the nearly 4 million registered Syrian refugees. Of those, 126,590 were given asylum in Europe in 2014.
Muiznieks said that the European Union's no-entry policies violently push Syrians back from the bloc's borders.
In 2014, EU nations agreed to resettle a further 33,000 Syrian refugees, 85 percent of them in Germany.
The Syrian civil war began during mass protests in 2011. Since then government forces have been fighting numerous rebel groups opposed to President Bashar Assad's rule, including Islamic extremists. The ongoing conflict has forced some 3.8 million people to flee the country and has led to the death of about 200,000, according to the United Nations.
