UNHCR: facing the refugee challenge. (United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees)

From: UN Chronicle | Date: September 1, 1991| Author: d'Adesky, Anne-Christine | Copyright information

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees was created in 1951. The Office has a staff of approximately 2,000, and a budget of almost $600 million, which primarily is provided by voluntary contributions.

By now, the images have become familiar to all of us: the race across a barbed-wire border on a moonless night; a boat, overcrowded with desperate people, preyed upon by modern-day pirates; cars, piled high with furniture, stuck at an entry point; an overnight city of wh...

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