1981: UN High Commissioner for Refugees: renewed recognition as testament to its success.(The Nobel Prize)

From: UN Chronicle | Date: September 1, 2003 | Copyright information

It is quite remarkable that the definition of a refugee, formulated in 1950 in an essentially European context and marked by the traumatic experience of the Second World War and the period of the cold war, should still apply today to situaLions which ... could not have been foreseen 30 years ago." Thus spoke Poul Hartling, in his Nobel Lecture of 11 December 1981, as Head of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The UN refugee agency was honoured for the second time--having the unique distinction of winning the Nobel Peace Prize twice in less ...

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