UNHCR

UNHCR ni kifupisho cha United Nations High Commission for Refugees yaani Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la kuhudumia Wakimbizi.

Ni chombo cha Umoja wa Mataifa chenye mamlaka ya kulinda jamii isiyo na makazi (wakimbizi). Mamlaka hiyo haijishughulishi na wakimbizi kutoka Palestina, ambao wanasaidiwa na UNWRA.

Shabaha ya shirika hili ni usaidizi kwa wakimbizi duniani. UNHCR inajenga kambi za kupokea wakimbizi wakati wa vita, inawapatia hifadhi kwenye nchi za jirani, inawasaidia kurudi kwa hiari nyumbani baada ya mapigano au kuhamia nchi nyingine. 

Shirika hili lilipokea mara mbili Tuzo ya Nobel ya Amani kwa ajili ya huduma na mafanikio yake ya kuokoa maisha, wakati wa 1954 na 1981.

UNHCR iliundwa mwaka 1950 baada ya vita kuu ya pili ya dunia na makao makuu yake yapo nchini Geneva, UswisiUNDG Members . Undg.org. Retrieved on 2013-07-12. The UNHCR has won two Nobel Peace Prizes, once in 1954 and again in 1981 .

Tanbihi

 Marejeo 
 Gil Loescher, Alexander Betts and James Milner. UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection into the Twenty-First Century, Routledge. 2008.
 Alexander Betts. Protection by Persuasion: International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime, Cornell University Press. 2009.
 Gil Loescher. The UNHCR and World Politics: A Perilous Path. Oxford University Press. 2002
 Fiona Terry. Condemned to Repeat? The Paradox of Humanitarian Action. Cornell University Press. 2002.
 Nicholas Steiner. Problems of Protection. Routledge. 2003.

 Viungo vya nje 

UNHCR's "Refworld" refugee document and news web site: from UNHCR's Status Determination and Protection Information Section (SDPIS) in the Division of International Protection Services (DIPS).
Bottled Water Program in Support of the UNHCR 
News from UNHCR official website
"Basic facts" from official website
Measuring Protection by Numbers, Report from official website
United Nations Rule of Law: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , on the rule of law work conducted by the High Commissioner for Refugees.
History of the United Nations – UK Government site
"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
USCRI's Campaign to End Refugee Warehousing 
USCRI's joint Statement Calling for Solutions to End the Warehousing of Refugees 
"Prisons of the Stateless: The Derelictions of UNHCR" by Jacob Stevens
Nine Million
EarthWater 

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