The UNHCR has won two Nobel Peace Prizes, once in 1954 and again in 1981.

" This is an exceptional position reflecting an exceptional role she has played for us ," said a UNHCR spokesman.

The individual who has raised the most money in benefit performances and volunteer work on behalf of UNHCR was Luciano Pavarotti.

UNHCR thus has missions in Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Serbia and Montenegro and Côte d ' Ivoire to assist and provide services to IDPs.

The calmer situation in Angola has made it possible for many of them to return to their home with the help of UNHCR, and in 2004 only 12, 600 remained in Namibia.

SD has referred to the recommendations from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) which state that the return of refugees should be the solution to refugee problems.

SGI was granted consultative status with the Economic and Social Council ( ECOSOC ) of the UN in 1983 and has been listed with UNHCR since 1997 "..

The UNHCR similarly opposes the use of the term ' refugee ' in reference to environmental migrants, as this term has a strict legal definition.

* Colombia has over 2 ( possibly 3 ) million IDPs according to the UNHCR, due to the war between the government, the FARC, the AUC and other armed groups.

" The UNHCR has traditionally argued that it does not have a " general competence for IDPs " even though at least since 1972 it had relief and rehabillatation programs for those displaced within a country.

Furthermore, ELSA has a co-operation agreement with UNHCR ( United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ).

Though World Vision has consultative status with UNESCO and partnerships with UN agencies like UNICEF, WHO, UNHCR and ILO, its financial records reveal that it has funded evangelical activities all over the world.

UNHCR has achieved some success in launching campaigns to prevent and reduce statelessness among formerly deported peoples in Crimea, Ukraine ( Armenians, Crimean Tatars, Germans, and Greeks who were deported en masse at the close of World War II ).

It also has international links with UNHCR and is part of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles ( ECRE ).

It is the center of the Paghman District which has a population of about 120, 000 ( 2002 official UNHCR est.

It has been demonstrated on a number of occasions both by ECRE and UNHCR, that the regulation impedes the legal rights and personal welfare of asylum seekers, including the right to a fair examination of their asylum claim and, where recognized, to effective protection, as well as the uneven distribution of asylum claims among Member States.

The organisation has close ties with several other refugee agencies such as the Refugee Council, Refugee Action and UNHCR.

The International Rescue Committee, a long-standing implementing partner of the UNHCR, then left stating that " humanitarianism has become a resource and people are manipulating it as never before.

Most Palestinian refugees – those in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan – do not come within the responsibility of the UNHCR, but instead come under an older body, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East ( UNRWA ).

• Ceremony commemorated World Refugee Day in Beirut under the auspices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) World Refugee Day ceremony in Lebanon in 2009.

UNHCR tents at a refugee camp following episodes of Xenophobia in South Africa | xenophobic violence and rioting in South Africa, 2008

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 UNHCR, Vieira de Mello participated in field work assignments in Bangladesh during its war of independence in 1971, in Sudan in 1972 following the Addis Ababa agreement which ended the First Sudanese Civil War and allowed the return of some 650, 000 Sudanese refugees and displaced persons, and Cyprus after the Turkish invasion in 1974.

* 1972-1973: Programme Officer, UNHCR, Juba, Sudan

* UNHCR Sudan Operations: Sudan / Chad situation update 42, 8 Dec 2005 describing name change

In 2008, Israel was the target of 5 / 11 UNHCR resolutions ( 45 %) and 1 / 28 decisions.

• A token of appreciation / of the High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR )-Beirut for the areas of humanitarian services, especially to refugees in 2009.

Galang camp had many facilities and offices like camp administration ( P3V ) office, PMI ( Red Cross Hospital ) and UNHCR offices / staff premises.

Some other examples are: the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS ( UNAIDS ), the International Labour Organization ( ILO ), the International Organization for Migration ( IMO ), the United Nations Educational and Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ), the United Nations Children's Fund ( UNICEF ), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ( FAO ), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) and the United Nations Environment Program ( UNEP ),

* UNHCR Convention on Civil and Political Rights-Human Rights Committee Document CCPR / C / 89, dated 27 April 1993, Bosnia and Herzegovina Report ( extensive documentation of war crimes committed in Višegrad and surrounding areas )

UNHCR also assisted the Czech Republic to overcome the large number of stateless persons created when it separated from Slovakia.

During the Kosovo crisis in 1999, Khan led the UNHCR team in the Republic of Macedonia.

In 2007, the UNHCR reported that there were still 10, 000 internally displaced persons in the Zakho district as a result of the Iraq war.

In this role she represents the UNHCR and High Commissioner António Guterres at the diplomatic level and works to facilitate long-term solutions for people displaced by large-scale crises, such as Afghanistan and Somalia.

* Ghazni, eastern Afghanistan – November 16, 2003 – UNHCR staff person Bettina Goislard was shot dead by motorcycle-borne gunman while travelling by car.

Bettina Goislard ( 11 November 1974 – 16 November 2003 ) was a French employee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ), assigned to its mission in Afghanistan.

He had widened the UNHCR mandate well beyond its original focus on Eastern Europe, extending the organisation's reach to refugees from Palestine, Vietnam, Angola and Algeria.

" In the same year, The UN refugee agency ( UNHCR ) named Memorial the winner of the annual Nansen Refugee Award for its wide range of services on behalf of forced migrants and internally displaced people in the Russian Federation, as well as refugees from Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

In 1996 UNHCR was asked by the UNGA to actively promote accessions to the 1954 and the 1961 conventions, as well as to provide relevant technical and advisory services pertaining to the preparation and implementation of nationality legislation to interested states.

António Guterres of Portugal said, " Mr. Aleinikoff brings a rich combination of skills and experience that will serve refugees and UNHCR extremely well.

There was violence against non-Albanians as well: UNHCR reported ( March 1999 ) that over 90 mixed villages in Kosovo " have now been emptied of Serb inhabitants " and other Serbs continue leaving, either to be displaced in other parts of Kosovo or fleeing into central Serbia.

Data was also collected from an identical survey returned by one other non-governmental organization as well as from research from websites run by JRS-Europe, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Amnesty International-Netherlands, the Swedish Migration Board, Detention Watch Network and UNHCR.

In light of their abandonment by its trusted partners and the insecurity, High Commissioner Sadako Ogata was asked why UNHCR did not simply leave as well.