It succeeded the earlier International Refugee Organization and the even earlier United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ( which itself succeeded the League of Nations ' Commissions for Refugees ).

It was first operated by United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and later by International Refugee Organization.

* U. S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants ' Campaign to End Refugee Warehousing in refugee camps around the world, people are confined to their settlement and denied their basic rights.

The World Refugee Survey 2008, published by the U. S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, estimates that 110, 600 Somali refugees lived in Yemen in 2007, which is a fraction of the estimated 700, 000-strong Somali nationals already living and working in Yemen.

With the help of the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia ( later the Czech Refugee Trust Fund ), all members of the OKB were able to escape through Poland and Sweden.

In the case of Bailey v. Richardson, Minton's vote upheld the legality of the loyalty tests, while in the decision he authored in the case of Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath, he voted to uphold the plaintiff's position that he had been terminated illegally because of his support of fascist ideology.

Although by 1942 Fry had been terminated from his position at the Emergency Rescue Committee, American private rescuers acknowledged that his program in France had been uniquely effective, and recruited Fry in 1944 to provide behind-the-scenes guidance to the Roosevelt administration's late-breaking rescue program, the War Refugee Board.

Franks is also a member of the Republican Study Committee, the International Religious Freedom Caucus, the Tea Party Caucus, House Working Group on Judicial Accountability, House Working Group on Waste, Fraud and Abuse, the Liberty Caucus, the DUI Caucus, the Human Rights Caucus, the India Caucus, the Refugee Caucus, the Education Freedom Caucus, and is an associate member of the Congressional Hispanic Conference.

* U. S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants ' Campaign to End Refugee Warehousing in refugee camps around the world, people are confined to their settlement and denied their basic rights.

* Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee

* Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee

When a Jewish family in Japan received an exit visa in that period, the Refugee Committee would provide the family with 5, 000 yen to deposit in a bank ( as allowed by law ) and receive US dollars ( or the currency of the country to which it planned to travel ) at the official rate — say, US $ 50.

That money was quickly and discreetly returned to the Refugee Committee where it was sold on the Black Market for the true yen / dollar exchange rate, which was vastly higher.

The outgoing family returned the 5, 000 yen, and the Refugee Committee retained the profit to help new arrivals.

Winton's mother also worked with Winton to place the children in homes, and later hostels, with a team of sponsors from groups like Maidenhead Rotary Club and Rugby Refugee Committee.

* World Jewish Relief ( formally known as The British Jewish Refugee Committee )

He also chaired the Immigration and Refugee Subcommittee of Judiciary ; the Nuclear Regulation Subcommittee ; the Social Security Subcommittee and the Committee on Aging.

It also noted his involvement in an awards banquet held by the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, which had been designated a Communist organization by Executive Order 9835.

Briefly employed by the International Refugee Organization, Djuvara became involved with the body of Romanian exiles, the Romanian National Committee, and helped organize American-assisted drops of voluntary paratroopers in support of the Romanian anti-communist resistance ( most of whom were captured by the Securitate ).

Expelled from France by the Nazis in 1941, on her return to the United States, Miriam Davenport became involved in a number of humanitarian efforts including the Progressive Schools Committee for Refugee Children, the International Rescue and Relief Committee, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

She served on the Bloomsbury House Refugee Committee, working with musicians from Austria and Germany.

Morgenthau served as an advisor regarding Eastern Europe and the Middle East, and later worked with war-related charitable bodies, including the Relief Committee for the Middle East, the Greek Refugee Settlement Commission and the American Red Cross.

Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath, 341 U. S. 123 ( 1951 ), was a United States Supreme Court opinion revolving around the right of association.

The extent to which procedural due process must be afforded the recipient is influenced by the extent to which he may be " condemned to suffer grievous loss ," Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath and depends upon whether the recipient's interest in avoiding that loss outweighs the governmental interest in summary adjudication.

Its extensive list of clients included: the Committee of One Million, Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals, the American Emergency Committee for Tibetan Refugees, the American-Asian Educational Exchange, the American African Affairs Association, and the American Committee for Aid to Datanga Freedom Fighters.

Refugee returns accelerated since 1999, reached a peak in 2000, but then slightly decreased in 2001 and 2002.

The International Refugee Organization ( IRO ) was founded on April 20, 1946 to deal with the massive refugee problem created by World War II.

The Constitution of the International Refugee Organization, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 15, 1946, specified the agency's field of operations.

Refugee camps were set up in Macedonia.

Refugee convoys were bombed while on the ice by the Soviet airforce, so only a small number of horses made it to safety.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ), also known as The UN Refugee Agency is a United Nations agency mandated to protect and support refugees at the request of a government or the UN itself and assists in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country.

In 1947, the International Refugee Organization ( IRO ) was founded by the United Nations.

UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection into the Twenty-First Century, Routledge.

Protection by Persuasion: International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime, Cornell University Press.

*" Who is a Refugee and who is not – the Crisis of Identity as a Challenge to Protection " Online video of an address by Ms. Erika Feller, Director, Department of International Protection, UNHCR, in 2005

Its UN functions were transferred to several UN agencies, including the International Refugee Organization and the World Health Organization.

It is separate from UNHCR, ( 1950 ), the UN Refugee Agency, which is the only other UN agency aiding refugees, dedicated to aiding all refugees in the world.

Refugee camps, which developed from tent cities to rows of concrete blockhouses to urban ghettos indistinguishable from their surroundings, house around one third of all registered Palestine refugees.

These partners include national government agencies such as DFID, ECHO, EuropeAid, USAID ; UN agencies such as the Food and Agriculture Organisation ( FAO ) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development ( IFAD ); non-governmental organizations such as Save the Children, Catholic Relief Services and Norwegian Refugee Council ; as well as corporate partners such as TNT N. V., YUM!

According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, there were almost 96, 000 African refugees in Yemen in 2006, including more than 91, 000 Somalis.

War, Escape and the Emergence of the Palestinian Refugee Problem.

These include: Certificate of Identity ( or " alien's passport "), the " Refugee Travel Document " and the United Nations laissez-passer.

In 1988, Bhutan was reported to have evicted some number of Nepali-speaking residents ( Bhutanese reports say about 5, 000 and Refugee reports says over 100, 000 ) from districts in southern Bhutan, creating a large refugee community that is now being detained in seven temporary United Nations refugee camps in Nepal and Sikkim.

However, after the UNHCR provided free shelter, food, and services to those living in camps, few of them returned back to the Refugee camps.