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About 80% of People From 27 Nations Would Welcome Refugees Fleeing Conflict

© REUTERS / Marko DjuricaPeople queue for free food at a makeshift camp for migrants and refugees at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni, Greece, May 11, 2016.
People queue for free food at a makeshift camp for migrants and refugees at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni, Greece, May 11, 2016. - Sputnik International
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An average of four in five (80 percent) people across 27 countries are prepared to welcome refugees in their homeland, a prominent human rights watchdog said in a statement to accompany the release of its new report, Refugee Welcome Index.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The highest support for refugees was shown by respondents in China, Germany and the United Kingdom, according to the index. In China alone, almost 50 percent of those surveyed said they would even welcome the refugees into their own homes.

"Our survey shows that while many governments still claim they simply can’t find room for refugees, their citizens feel the opposite way," Amnesty International said in the report, adding that it also found that "politicians have run out of excuses not to do their fair share: Instead of chasing headlines with anti-refugee rhetoric, they should be making brave decisions."

Meanwhile, in Germany, 96 percent said they are still open for the idea of hosting more refugees, despite an inflow of one million migrants into the country in 2015. In Jordan, which is already hosting over 600,000 refugees who fled war-torn Syria, 94 percent of respondents support the idea of hosting even more people in need, the survey's results revealed.

Damage is seen inside the departure terminal following the March 22, 2016 bombing at Zaventem Airport, in these undated photos made available to Reuters by the Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad, in Brussels, Belgium, March 29, 2016. - Sputnik International
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Among British respondents, 29 percent said they were willing to open up their own homes to refugees, while another 47 percent said they would allow refugees live in their neighborhoods.

Over 27,000 people were surveyed in the process of compiling the index, according to the watchdog.

A massive refugee crisis is currently raging in Europe, with hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants fleeing their crisis-torn countries of origin in the Middle East and Africa to escape violence and poverty. More than 1.8 million of them arrived in the European Union in 2015.

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