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Office Of The United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees:     more books (48)

Refugee problems and their solutions by G. J Van Heuven Goedhart, 1955 Selling norms to tough customers: UNHCR promotion of refugee protection in Mexico and Honduras 1980-1989 (Working paper) by Kevin Hartigan, 1991 The UNHCR and its mandate on refugee management: The case of Bangladeshi and Myanmar refugees (Working papers / Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management) by Nomita Halder, 1999 France: Toward a just and humane asylum policy (Human Rights Watch) by Elizabeth Andersen, 1997 A mandate to protect and assist refugees;: 20 years of service in the cause of refugees, 1951-1971 by Peter Collins, 1971 Asylum in the Arab-Islamic tradition by Ghassan Maarouf Arnaout, 1987

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61. Kofi Annan - Center Of The Storm. Who Does What? Economic & Social Council | PBS
    Development Programme (UNDP) and the office of the The united nations Children's Fund(UNICEF) buys half the The UN high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) has  
    http://www.pbs.org/wnet/un/who/ecosoc.html
    
    Extractions: While the Security Council gets the headline-grabbing work of peacekeepers and arms inspectors, leave it to ECOSOC to figure out how to immunize babies in Sudan against polio, fight opium smuggling in Tajikistan or finance refugee camps in Pakistan. Sheer grunt work, but, without it, according to the UN founders, the chances for war and bloodshed would only escalate. But you won't see an ECOSOC banner flying in the field. This organ issues reports and makes recommendations on everything from human rights to health policy, while coordinating the work of 14 specialized UN agencies such as the Food and Agricultural Organization and 15 other commissions such as the Commission for Human Rights and the Economic Commission for Africa. Some UN programs such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) report to ECOSOC as well as to the General Assembly.

62. UNESCO Office Of Public Information (OPI)| THE COMMUNITY OF SANT'EGIDIO TO RECEI
    and Guatemalan guerrilla leader Rolando Moran (1996), the united nations high Commissionfor refugees and its high commissioner Sadako Ogata  
    http://www.unesco.org/bpi/eng/unescopress/2000/00-06e.shtml
    
    Extractions: News Links Announcing the decision at the close of the jury meeting, Mr Kissinger explained: "In a period when many countries around the world are experiencing ethnic, religious and other conflicts, our choice comes in recognition of the efforts of the Community of Sant'Egidio to achieve ecumenical reconciliation among all religions and for their work in Algeria, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau and Yugoslavia." Mr Kissinger further highlighted the Community's "contribution to human understanding and to solving religious, political and ethnic conflicts." Former President of Portugal Mário Soares, who is a member of the jury, spoke of the Community of Sant'Egidio's work praising their continuing efforts to bring together religious personalities of all faiths and their commitment to the idea that "the road to peace is to be found in dialogue among the religions." He also praised their mediation work saying: "They are responsible for peace and for the first free elections in Mozambique. They tried [to achieve the same thing] in Angola but did not succeed and they have also worked in Guinea Bissau and other parts of Africa as well as in Algeria and [...] in Kosovo". He also spoke of their work for the poor around the world: "They fight poverty for human dignity." Mr Soares further pointed out that the President and founder of the Community is a layman, Andrea Riccardi, a Law Professor at the University of Rome.

63. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS
    1982 Alva Myrdal, Alfonso García Robles. 1981 office of the united NationsHigh commissioner for refugees. 1980 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.  
    http://www.anarchy.no/nobel.html
    
    Extractions: NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS 2001 Kofi Annan and UN 2000 Kim Dae-jung 1999 Médecins Sans Frontières 1998 John Hume, David Trimble 1997 International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams 1996 Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta 1995 Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs 1994 Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin 1993 Nelson Mandela, Frederik Willem de Klerk 1992 Rigoberta Menchú Tum 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi 1990 Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev 1989 The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso ) 1988 United Nations Peacekeeping Forces 1987 Oscar Arias Sanchez 1986 Elie Wiesel 1985 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Inc. 1984 Desmond Mpilo Tutu 1983 Lech Walesa 1982 Alva Myrdal, Alfonso García Robles 1981 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1980 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel 1979 Mother Teresa 1978 Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin 1977 Amnesty International 1976 Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan 1975 Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov 1974 Seán MacBride, Eisaku Sato

64. THE HIGH COMMISSIONER
    agency cooperation within the united nations to address his eight years in office,refugee problems During his time as high commissioner, the organization set  
    http://www.unhcr.ch/un&ref/ogata/commissioners.htm
    
    Extractions: Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart (Netherlands) 1951–56 Before his appointment as the first United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Gerrit van Heuven Goedhart was a lawyer and journalist. During the Second World War, he was active in the Dutch resistance and its government-in-exile in London. As High Commissioner, van Heuven Goedhart put much of his energy into securing funds for the estimated 2.2 million refugees still displaced after the Second World War. By the time of his sudden death in 1956, he had put UNHCR on a much sounder financial footing than five years earlier. He shifted the focus of the organization’s work from resettlement abroad to local integration within Europe, and his achievements on behalf of refugees were acknowledged in 1954, when UNHCR was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Auguste R. Lindt (Switzerland) 1956–60 Félix Schnyder (Switzerland) 1960–65 Sadruddin Aga Khan (Iran) 1965–77 Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan worked for UNHCR before becoming High Commissioner. He led missions to the Middle East and Asia and served as Deputy High Commissioner from 1962 to 1966. By the time he was appointed High Commissioner, UNHCR’s expenditure in Africa and Asia exceeded that in Europe, marking a definitive shift from Europe to the developing world. He strengthened the organization’s relations with African governments and helped to improve inter-agency cooperation within the United Nations to address problems of mass displacement in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. He played a key role during the Bangladesh refugee crisis in 1971 and in assisting Asians expelled from Uganda in 1972.

65. United Nations -- Encyclopædia Britannica Online Article
    International Labor Organization)—and a number of special offices (eg, the Officeof the united nations high commissioner for refugees), programs, and  
    http://search.britannica.com/ebc/article?eu=406851&query=dag hammarskjold&ct=gen

66. Nobel Prize In Peace Since 1901
    1953, Marshall, George Catlett. 1954, office Of The united nations HighCommissioner For refugees. 1957, Pearson, Lester Bowles.  
    http://www.planet101.com/nobel_peace_hist.htm
    
    Extractions: Nobel Prize in Peace since 1901 Year Winners Dunant, Jean Henri; Passy, Frederic Ducommun, Elie; Gobat, Charles Albert Cremer, Sir William Randal Institute Of International Law Suttner, Bertha Sophie Felicita Von Roosevelt, Theodore Moneta, Ernesto Teodoro; Renault, Louis Arnoldson, Klas Pontus; Bajer, Fredrik Beernaert, Auguste Marie Francois; Constant, Paul Henribenjamin Balluet D'estournelles De Permanent International Bureau Asser, Tobias Michael Carel; Fried, Alfred Hermann Root, Elihu Fontaine, Henri La International Committee Of The Red Cross Wilson, Thomas Woodrow Bourgeois, Leon Victor Auguste Branting, Karl Hjalmar; Lange, Christian Lous Nansen, Fridtjof Chamberlain, Sir Austen; Dawes, Charles Gates Briand, Aristide; Stresemann, Gustav Buisson, Ferdinand; Quidde, Ludwig Kellogg, Frank Billings Soederblom, Lars Olof Nathan Addams, Jane; Butler, Nicholas Murray Angell, Sir Norman Henderson, Arthur Ossietzky, Carl Von Lamas, Carlos Saavedra Cecil, Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Refugees, Nansen International Office For International Committee Of The Red Cross Hull, Cordell

67. Activities Undertaken By United Nations Bodies Or Agencies To Commemorate The 50
    related agencies through firsthand observation and study the united nations Officeat Geneva united nations high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) - Panel  
    http://193.194.138.190/html/50th/50unorg.htm
    
    Extractions: Inter-agency focal points Highlights of activities: General Assembly Commemoration of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights including a special meeting of the General Assembly and presentation of Human Rights Awards by the Secretary-General (10 December 1998, UN headquarters) Commission on Human Rights, 16 March - 24 April 1998, Geneva - Commemoration during 54th session of the Commission of Human Rights;

68. Previous UN Nobel Prize Winners - Global Policy Forum - UN Secretary General
    Hull, a former US secretary of state, for being one of the initiators of the UnitedNations. 1954 The office of the UN high commissioner for refugees, for  
    http://www.globalpolicy.org/secgen/annan/othernobels.htm
    
    Extractions: October 12, 2001 Previous Nobel Peace Prizes awarded to UN officials or organizations: Cordell Hull, a former U.S. secretary of state, for being one of the initiators of the United Nations. Ralph Bunche, acting U.N. mediator in Palestine, for his mediation of the 1949 armistice between Israel and the Arab states. The office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, for its ``untiring and sometimes thankless effort, to bring assistance to the refugees.'' Lester B. Pearson, former Canadian prime minister, for mediating a truce in the 1956 Middle East War, and sponsoring the resolution creating a United Nations Emergency Force to police the Suez Canal. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, awarded posthumously following his death in a plane crash on a peace mission to Congo, ``in gratitude for all he did, for what he achieved, for what he fought for: to create peace and goodwill among nations and men.'' The U.N. Children's Fund, or UNICEF, for realizing that ``the children of today make the history of the future.'' The International Labor Organization for promoting ``social justice.''

69. ODC - Human Rights Conference, Vienna (Austria) 26-27 June 199
    refugees, The protection of refugees and displaced Mrs. Mary Robinson united nationsHigh commissioner for Human General of the united nations office at Vienna.  
    http://www.undcp.org/odccp/event_1998-06-01_1.html
    
    Extractions: Home Site Map Links Contact Us Field Offices select the site Afghanistan Barbados Bolivia Brazil Colombia Egypt India Iran Kenya Lao PDR Mexico Myanmar New York Nigeria Pakistan Peru Russia Senegal South Africa Thailand Uzbekistan Viet Nam Login Search print document email document News and Publications Press Releases ... Events at the Austria Center Vienna 26 - 27 June, 1998 Building justice in countries emerging from conflict is an essential, and difficult, task for the people concerned and the entire international community. Peace and economic development can only be sustained if the rule of law prevails. An effective justice system helps to prevent a relapse into conflict. Ways must also be found to address human rights violations of the past. While the roles of the government, legislature and civil society at the national level are crucial, support through international, regional and non-governmental organisations is also vital. Such assistance needs to be coordinated among the different actors, based on complementarity of action, and supported by sufficient resources, given the long-term nature of such efforts.

70. Committees Committees - SSUNS 2002
    the UN General Assembly created the office of the united nations high Commissionerfor refugees or single country, but only through united global action.  
    http://www.ssuns.org/content.php?section=committees&committee=unhcr

71. United Nations
    in 1988 it was awarded to the united nations Peacekeeping Operations, = the Officeof the united nations high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) received  
    http://afa.at/globalview/122001/uno1.html
    
    Extractions: Palais des Nations in Geneva Note to Correspondents Note No. 162, 12. October 2001 Nobel Peace Prize 2001 Awarded to the United Nations and to its Secretary-General, Kofi Annan Vienna, 12 October (UN Information Service) Note to Correspondents Note No 163 12 October 2001 The United Nations and the Nobel Peace Prize Awards VIENNA, 12 October (UN Information Service)

72. International Biography
    Teresa 1980 Adolfo Perez Esquivel 1981 - office of the UN high commissioner forRefugees 1987 - Oscar Arias Sanchez 1988 - united nations Peac-keeping  
    http://www.palestinehistory.com/intbio14.htm

73. Refugee Crisis Facing World Is Forum Focus
    It is undertaken with the cooperation of the office of the high Commissionerfor refugees and the united nations Association.  
    http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss2/record2102.14.html
    
    Extractions: Leading international figures, including the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, will meet at Columbia Sept. 28 to discuss the growing world refugee crisis. The plight of escapees from ethnic and regional conflict in Bosnia, Rwanda, Somalia, Haiti and elsewhere will be discussed in the all-day conference, "Refugee Crisis Forum: Reporting on the Refugee Migrations of the Post-Cold War Era." Other speakers will include Phyllis E. Oakley, Assistant Secretary of State for population, refugees and migrations, Robert P. DeVecchi, president of the International Rescue Committee, Soren Jessen-Petersen, director of the New York office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and refugees from Bosnia, Liberia and Burma. The forum is sponsored by the Sanpaolo Professorship in International Journalism of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at the University. Seymour Topping, the Sanpaolo Professor, is chairman of the forum, which is a calendar event of the United Nations 50th anniversary observance and the only one to address the plight of the 40 million refugees around the world. It is undertaken with the cooperation of the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees and the United Nations Association. Forum discussions will consider the implications for global stability of the increasing number of refugees in Africa, Europe and Asia; their need for protection and resettlement; the problems faced by countries granting asylum; the role of the UN in combating forced migration, and the challenges in achieving balance between national sovereignty and human rights intervention.

74. SunSITE India : 2001 Peace Prize
    in Addis Ababa; the united nations Emergency Force (UNEF II) in Ismailia; the Officeof the united nations high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) in  
    http://sunsite.iisc.ernet.in/nobel2001/pea2001_bio.html
    
    Extractions: Nobel Prize in Peace Biography Kofi Annan of Ghana is the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations. The first Secretary-General to be elected from the ranks of United Nations staff, he began his first term on 1 January 1997. On 29 June 2001, acting on a recommendation by the Security Council, the General Assembly appointed him by acclamation to a second term of office, beginning on 1 January 2002 and ending on 31 December 2006. Mr. Annan's priorities as Secretary-General have been to revitalize the United Nations through a comprehensive programme of reform; to strengthen the Organization's traditional work in the areas of development and the maintenance of international peace and security; to encourage and advocate human rights, the rule of law and the universal values of equality, tolerance and human dignity found in the United Nations Charter; and to restore public confidence in the Organization by reaching out to new partners and, in his words, by "bringing the United Nations closer to the people". Mr. Annan was born in Kumasi, Ghana, on 8 April 1938. He studied at the University of Science and Technology in Kumasi and completed his undergraduate work in economics at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A., in 1961. From 1961 to 1962, he undertook graduate studies in economics at the Institut universitaire des hautes études internationales in Geneva. As a 1971-1972 Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mr. Annan received a Master of Science degree in management.

75. UD - Statement By H.M. King Harald V At The Millennium Summit Of The United Nati
    Organization, the. united nations Children’s Fund, and twice to the Officeof the united. nations high commissioner for refugees. The fight  
    http://odin.dep.no/ud/engelsk/p10001986/032001-990256/index-dok000-b-n-a.html
    
    Extractions: The Ministry's homepage in English What's new The Ministry ... Contact Normal Full Screen Language Statement by H.M. King Harald V at the Millennium Summit of the United Nations New York, 7 september 2000 Madam President, Mr. President, Mr. Secretary-General, Excellencies, Distinguished delegates. We must invest in the United Nations. We must give it the strength and resources it needs to accomplish the tasks we have assigned it. We owe it to our forefathers, who made it the object of their highest hopes and aspirations. We owe it to our children and grandchildren, whose future has been placed in our hands. We owe it to ourselves, because our generation has been entrusted with the knowledge to make the right decisions and the means to carry them out. The United Nations rose from the ashes of World War II. From the recognition that our powers of destruction had reached the point where peace was the only option. The Advent of nuclear weapons reinforced this realization. Yet the bloodletting, devastation and misery of armed conflict are still very much a reality in Europe, in the Americas, in Asia and in Africa.

76. Ajc.com News PEACE PRIZER WINNERS
    1983 Lech Walesa. 1982 Alva Myrdal, Alfonso Garcia Robles. 1981 Officeof the united nations high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR).  
    http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/news/1002/11prizelist.html

77. New Page 1
    Ruud Lubbers for his leadership since taking office as the united nations high Commissionerfor refugees this year to the whole united nations system, twice  
    http://www.un.int/brazil/speech/01d-del-56agnu-refugees-1911.htm
    
    Extractions: "Third Committee - Report of the UNHCR, Questions Relating to Refugees, Returnees and Displaced Persons and Humanitarian Questions" Statement by the Brazilian Delegation New York, 19 November 2001 Mr. Chairman, Let me express my Government’s appreciation to Mr. Ruud Lubbers for his leadership since taking office as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and through him, commend the UNHCR staff for their dedicated work. The 1951 Refugee Convention completed its 50th anniversary on the 28th July this year. This document has withstood the test of time. Along with human rights and international humanitarian law, refugee law constitutes a fundamental pillar of the international regime for the protection of individuals. Transcending its geographical and time constraints the Convention and the 1967 Protocol have been able to address the plight of millions of individuals. As has happened this year to the whole United Nations system, twice before, in 1954 and in 1981, the fundamental work performed by the UNHCR, as the guardian of the Convention, was acknowledged when the Nobel Peace prize was awarded to it. Unfortunately, despite all commendable efforts we still have reasons to be concerned. Protracted conflict situations in all continents prompt millions to seek safe havens. The situation of refugees remains a high priority in the international agenda. It is the firm and traditional position of the Brazilian Government to recognize the importance of preserving and ensuring respect to the 1951 Convention and its 1967 Protocol, basic pillars of the international regime of refugee protection. In this sense, we strongly support the strict observation by all countries of the principles contained in such instruments, particularly the principle of non-refoulement, and renew our call to all countries that have not yet adhered to the 1951 Convention or to the 1967 Protocol to do so.

78. NATO/SFOR Informer: Ogata
    When first created by the united nations General Assembly in was envisioned as a temporaryoffice, with a The current high commissioner for refugees is Sadako  
    http://www.nato.int/sfor/indexinf/84/ogata/t000327a.htm
    
    Extractions: When first created by the United Nations General Assembly in 1951, UNHCR was charged primarily with resettling 1.2 million European refugees left homeless in the aftermath of World War II. Today, 22.7 million people in over 140 countries fall under UNHCR's concern. At the outset, UNHCR was envisioned as a temporary office, with a projected life-span of three years. Today, 49 years later, it has become one of the world's principal humanitarian agencies, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, and offices in 122 countries. More than 80 percent of UNHCR's 5,617-member staff work in the field, often in isolated, dangerous, and difficult conditions. UNHCR has twice been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its work. The current High Commissioner for Refugees is Sadako Ogata, a former Japanese diplomat and academic who assumed her post in February 1991. She reports annually to the U.N. General Assembly through the Economic and Social Council. The High Commissioner's programs are approved and supervised by the UNHCR Executive Committee, currently composed of 53 member countries.

79. The Norwegian Nobel Institute - List Of Laureates
    1954 Reserved. 1955 The prize for 1954 The office of the UnitedNations high commissioner for refugees, Geneva.  
    http://www.nobel.no/eng_lau_list.html

80. International Kids Club World Peace World Love
    Foreign Affairs . 1981 office OF THE united nations high COMMISSIONERFOR refugees Geneva, Switzerland. 1980 ADOLFO  
    http://www.planetpals.com/IKC/peaceprize.html
    
    Extractions: Nobel prizes were created by the will of Alfred Nobel, a notable Swedish chemist. He was the inventor of dynomite. The prize is awarded by the Norwegian NOBEL Committee to the person or persons who bestowed the "greatest benefit on mankind" each year. Six Nobel prizes are awarded in 6 different subjects Peace, Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Economics and Literature. They have been awarded to a variety of people for a variety of reasons since 1901. See the list that follows! This year (2001) marks the centennial for the PEACE prize! 100 years of PEACE: Nobel Peace Prize Winners 1901-2000

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