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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a part of the United Nations. The purpose of this agency is to protect and support refugees when governments or the UN ask for help. The UNHCR helps refugees return home out of their voluntary will, settle locally, or move to a third country according to the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and other international law. The agency's headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland. It is a member of the United Nations Development Group chaired by United Nations Development Programme.[1] The UNHCR has won two Nobel Peace Prizes in 1954 and in 1981.[2]

List of High Commissioners

# Photo High Commissioners Nationality Time
– 100px Nansen, FridtjofFridtjof Nansen 22x20px Norway 1922–1927
League of Nations High Commissioner
1 File:HeuvenGoedhart1944 (cropped).jpg Goedhart, Gerrit Jan van HeuvenGerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart 22x20px Netherlands 1951–1956
2 100px Lindt, Auguste R.Auguste R. Lindt 22x20px Switzerland 1956–1960
3 Schnyder, FélixFélix Schnyder 22x20px Switzerland 1960–1965
4 100px Aga Khan, SadruddinSadruddin Aga Khan 22x20px Iran 1965–1977
5 100px Hartling, PoulPoul Hartling 22x20px Denmark 1978–1985
6 Hocké, Jean-PierreJean-Pierre Hocké 22x20px Switzerland 1986–1989
7 100px Stoltenberg, ThorvaldThorvald Stoltenberg 22x20px Norway 1990
8 100px Ogata, SadakoSadako Ogata 22x20px Japan 1990–2000
9 100px Lubbers, RuudRuud Lubbers 22x20px Netherlands 2001–2005
(Resign due to internal investigation)
10 100px Guterres, AntónioAntónio Guterres 22x20px Portugal 2005–2015
11 100px Grandi, FilippoFilippo Grandi 22x20px Italy 2016–present

United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees Media

  • Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

  • UNHCR packages containing tents, tarps, and mosquito netting sit in a field in Dadaab, Kenya, on 11 December 2006, following disastrous flooding

  • UNHCR Stamps of Tajikistan 2001.jpg

    UNHCR 50th anniversary. Stamp of Tajikistan, 2001.

  • An Aerial View of the Za'atri Refugee Camp.jpg

    Aerial view of Zaatari refugee camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan, July 2013

  • Darfur refugee camp in Chad.jpg

    Refugee camp in Darfur (Chad)

  • Army Lynx Helicopter Helps Transport Aid in Macedonia MOD 45108219.jpg

    A helicopter arrives at a refugee facility in Macedonia with an underslung load of aid.

  • Trucks loaded with supplies to aid Kurdish refugees.JPEG

    Trucks loaded with supplies drive across the border from Turkey into Iraq to take part in Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees.

  • USMC-120516-M-RU378-103.jpg

    An UNHCR-officer talks with a Marine during Exercise Eager Lion 12.

  • UNHCR in Kenya.jpg

    Workers from the UNHCR, and CARE International gather bundles of shelters and mosquito nets in Kenya.

  • Heavily fortified UNHCR offices in Somaliland

Related pages

References

  1. ↑ "UNDG Members". Archived from the original on 2011-05-11. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
  2. ↑ "Nobel Laureates Facts – Organizations". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2009-10-13.
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