Part One--UNHCR at 50: What Future for Refugee Protection. / Rachael Reilly.
by Reilly, Rachael; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 6Environment. Publisher: Migration World, 2001ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | Asylum. -- Right of | Human rights -- International aspects | Refugees -- Laws. -- Legal statusDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Fifty years ago, in the aftermath of the second world war, the international community established an agency to protect and assist the world's refugees. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), marked its fiftieth anniversary on December 14, 2000. Although UNHCR was first established with a limited three year mandate, the forced movement of people has become increasingly more complex over the past fifty years. Today, no continent, and barely any country, in the world is untouched by the global refugee crisis." (MIGRATION WORLD) The author reviews the UNHCR's policies and examines the challenges it has faced throughout its fifty year history.
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
Originally Published: Part One--UNHCR at 50: What Future for Refugee Protection, Vol. 29 No. 1-2 2001; pp. 13-18.
"Fifty years ago, in the aftermath of the second world war, the international community established an agency to protect and assist the world's refugees. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), marked its fiftieth anniversary on December 14, 2000. Although UNHCR was first established with a limited three year mandate, the forced movement of people has become increasingly more complex over the past fifty years. Today, no continent, and barely any country, in the world is untouched by the global refugee crisis." (MIGRATION WORLD) The author reviews the UNHCR's policies and examines the challenges it has faced throughout its fifty year history.
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