The first international co-ordination on refugee affairs came with the League of Nations ' appointment of Fridtjof Nansen to the newly created post of High Commissioner for Refugees.

Refugees began arriving in the U. S. after a Communist government came to power in Laos in 1975 and by 1980, the Laotian population of the U. S. reached 47, 683, according to census estimates.

In 2009 the overcrowded conditions at the island's temporary immigrant reception centre came under criticism by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ).

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees determined that he had a well-founded fear of political persecution in Iraq ; in July 2002 he settled in Kent, Washington ( slightly south of Seattle ) with refugee status.

In 2007, after 18 months of working with the US Embassy in Baghdad, the State Department, the International Rescue Committee, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and Senator Edward Kennedy's Iraq Refugee Crisis Committee, she was successful in bringing Vincent's translator Nouriya to safety and asylum in New York.

Refugees fled to all parts of West and Central Africa, bringing with them their belief in the water spirit.

It also cooperates with UNICEF and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and has official relations with the European Union.

In his recent two projects Living with Hunger and Living with Refugees ( nominated for an Emmy award ), he takes reality television to its extreme, becoming the central character in the films by living the lifestyle of an Ethiopian villager and Sudanese refugee respectively ; in doing this he tries to break the boundary between " us " ( the people watching on TV ) and " them " ( those before the camera ) by becoming one of them ( albeit for just a month ).

This normally has been done in partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

A Norwegian diplomat, working with the League of Nations as a High Commissioner for Refugees beginning in 1919, proposed the idea of a forced population transfer modeled on the earlier post Balkan-war Greek-Bulgarian mandatory population transfer of Greeks in Bulgaria to Greece, and Bulgarians in Greece to Bulgaria.

Refugees from southern Rus ' moved mostly to the northeast, into the forested region with poor soils between the upper Volga and the Oka Rivers.

The creation of the Refuge Act began with hearings by the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security from 1965 – 1968, which recommended that congress create a uniform system for refugees, but received little support.

Refugees from Belegost and Nogrod added to the population of Khazad-dûm, and its wealth was also enriched with the discovery of mithril, a magical and extremely valuable metal found only in its mines.

As an NGO at the United Nations, Sōka Gakkai was admitted as an NGO associated with the Department of Public Information ( DPI ) and was listed as an NGO in cooperation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ), both in 1981.

However, at the peak of his commercial success, Winwood moved to Virgin Records and released Roll with It and Refugees of the Heart.

Prince Sadruddin began as a Special Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) in 1959 with a focus on World Refugee Year ( 1959 – 1960 ).

Refugees fleeing the new communist government of China also often settled in squatter areas along the railway and this together with an increase in the British Army ’ s presence added to domestic travel demand in Hong Kong.

* She has a significant role in ' The Refugees ' ( 1893 ) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle where her fall from favour with Louis XIV is dramatically depicted

Thus, after graduating from the Sorbonne in 1969, he moved to Geneva to stay with a family friend, and found his first job as an editor at the offices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Vieira de Mello also served as Special Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for Cambodia, being the first and only UN Representative to hold talks with the Khmer Rouge.

Prior to his role with RI, Michel served as the United Nations High Commission on Refugees ( UNHCR ) Regional Representative for the United States and the Caribbean.

Possibly the most widely known Cacophony member is novelist Chuck Palahniuk, who has mentioned his experiences with the Society in his writings, notably the book Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon.

* Refugees 1960: A Report in Words and Pictures, 1960 ( with Kaye Webb )

The Elon Peace Plan ( now " The Israeli Initiative ", formerly " The Right Road to Peace ") is a plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the principles of rehabilitation of Palestinian Refugees, Israeli Sovereignty, and Strategic Cooperation with Jordan.

Paintings were no longer as multi-figured as they had been with Refugees at Sea, and still lifes were of individual objects such as a brick or loaf of bread.

In 2005 and 2006, the RCG stepped up their work in solidarity with asylum seekers, supporting the setting up of UNITY, an asylum seekers ' union, in Glasgow, and helping to establish Tyneside Community Action for Refugees ( TCAR ) in Newcastle and Gateshead and the North West Asylum Seekers Defence Group ( NWASDG ) in Manchester ( for a selection of reports from this period see 1, 2 ).

Refugees poured in, signing the Confession and rules in order to remain, and then disregarding them.

As the Bhutanese government was unwilling to take them into their country many developed nations offered the Refugees to allow them to settle in their own countries which include USA and Australia.

Refugees typically rely on limited sources of niacin provided to them, such as groundnuts ; the instability in the nutritional content and distribution of food aid can be the cause of pellagra in displaced populations.

Refugees continue to arrive in early in 1945, but it became increasingly difficult to obtain donations to support them.

Refugees, among them noblemen such as Archil of Kakheti, took shelter in the West, either in Abkhazia or Tao-Klarjeti, and brought there their culture.

Norway also refused to accept them because of the distance between the ship and Norway, and reported Australia to the United Nations, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the International Maritime Organisation for alleged failure to obey its duties under international law, though it did not ask for the assistance of these organisations.

Refugees fled by foot to Ndola in Northern Rhodesia, where RRAF planes picked them up and flew them to camps in Salisbury.

Refugees are placed under the care of LiNK staff ( or Protection Officers ) who live with the refugees and walk them through every step – from accompanying them to required medical exams to ensuring their interviews are on track.

Their refugee status allowed them to receive UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) assistance and aid until the early 21st century.

Refugees streamed into nearby provinces with their belongings in baskets and on bicycles, and the naval guns shelled them as well.

Refugees from the enclave town of Khojaly, sheltering in the Azeri border town of Agdam, give largely consistent accounts of how their enemies attacked their homes on the night of 25 February, chased those who fled and shot them in the surrounding forests.

In 2003, some 33, 000 Russian citizens ( over 90 % of them presumed to be Chechens ) applied for asylum in the European Union ( EU ), according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, making them the largest group of new refugees arriving in developed nations.

Rabbi Nissim Zeev are: the Law to Increase Child Allotments, Law to Punish Terrorists, Abortion Law, Incitement Law, Law to Recognize the Rights of Jewish Refugees from Arab Lands ( Upon the Establishment of the State of Israel ), as well as dozens of laws for the benefit of the public.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was forced to close its refugee camp at Mboki in October 2002, due to the high prevalence of weapons.

In 1952, its operations ceased, and it was replaced by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ).

* 7 February 1969-Heinrich Windelen ( CDU ) succeeds von Hassel as Minister of Displaced Persons, Refugees, and War Victims after the latter was elected to President of the Bundestag.

Led by Fridtjof Nansen, the Commission for Refugees was established on 27 June 1921 to look after the interests of refugees, including overseeing their repatriation and, when necessary, resettlement.

Despite many heated debates in the General Assembly, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was founded as a subsidiary organ of the General Assembly by Resolution 319 ( IV ) of the United Nations General Assembly of December 1949.

Prior to the establishment of UNHCR, Fridtjof Nansen was the League of Nations High Commissioner of the Nansen International Office for Refugees, from 1922.

The Nansen International Office for Refugees was awarded the 1938 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to establish the Nansen passports.

During the Soviet-Afghan War, the accommodation of Afghan refugees into Pakistan was controlled in Pakistan's largest province, Balochistan, under General Rahimuddin Khan, by making the refugees stay for controlled durations in barbed wire camps ( see Controlling Soviet-Afghan War Refugees ).

In 1930, the Nansen International Office for Refugees was established as a successor agency to the Commission.

Political prisoners were granted amnesty, discriminatory legislation was repealed, South Africa withdrew all its forces from Namibia, and some 42, 000 refugees returned safely and voluntarily under the auspices of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ).

At the end of the year 2000, Lubbers was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Kofi Annan, to succeed Mrs. Sadako Ogata as UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ).

Since I Corps was assigned to Fort Lewis in 1981, soldiers from its units have participated in Operation Just Cause in Panama, Desert Shield and Desert Storm during the Persian Gulf War, Operation Provide Comfort for Kurdish Refugees, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.

In 1939, Van Zeeland became president of the Committee on Refugees, established in London, and was made High Commissioner for the repatriation of displaced Belgians in 1944.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established in January 1951 and, in July of that year, the Status of Refugees Convention was opened for signature and ratification.

It is also supported by the principles found in paragraph 171 of the Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status which was issued by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ).

The Nansen Refugee Award for 2002 was awarded to the crew of the Tampa by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) for their efforts to follow international principles of saving people in distress at sea.

Rinnan has received other awards, including the Medal of Honour from the King of Norway, the inaugural Tampa Award from the Australian organisation Rural Australians for Refugees, the AFRAS Gold Medal from the Association for Rescue at Sea and he was named Captain of the Year 2001 by the Nautical Institute and shipping journal Lloyds List.