A demonstration demanding a better international response to the refugee crisis is taking place at Stormont today.
Refugees, campaigners, politicians, trade union activists and church leaders are expected to join the protest organised by Amnesty International and the Northern Ireland Community of Refugees and Asylum Seekers (NICRAS).
Patrick Corrigan, Amnesty International's Northern Ireland programme director, said: "This demonstration is to show that ordinary people in Northern Ireland care deeply about refugees. Many of those seeking sanctuary have seen their families torn apart and homes destroyed.
"Sadly, to date, the response of the UK Government and the international community to the refugee crisis has been wholly inadequate.
"Here in Northern Ireland, people and politicians have mobilised in response to the refugee crisis. But there is more that we can do - both for those affected by the Syrian war but also from other countries of conflict and persecution."
Some 250 displaced people from war-torn Syria have been resettled across Northern Ireland since last year.
They include dozens of children whose families were taken from refugee camps in Lebanon and Turkey as part of the UK-wide Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme to resettle around 20,000 by 2020.
The scheme was set up following a public outcry after the death of toddler Alan Kurdi last year.
NICRAS chairman Justin Kouame, a refugee from the Ivory Coast, said: "I know how important it is for countries to welcome and offer sanctuary to people fleeing violence and persecution.
"We're in the middle of a massive refugee crisis and I would like to see Northern Ireland politicians and the international community commit to throwing the same lifeline to far more people who need it."
The Syrian conflict has created almost five million refugees.
According to the UN's refugee agency, so far this year 300,000 people have crossed the Mediterranean to Europe and more than 3,200 have died or gone missing.
Tens of thousands are also stranded in appalling conditions in Greece and Italy.
