Protection by Action

1988 ◽  
Vol 28 (265) ◽  
pp. 325-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Hocké
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Main Function ◽  
World War ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Refugee Problem ◽  
Second World

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was set up in 1951 with the main function of providing protection for refugees. This mandate corresponded to the task immediately confronting it, that of solving the refugee problem affecting Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Meeting on aid for victims of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia (Geneva, 29 July 1992)

1992 ◽  
Vol 32 (289) ◽  
pp. 389-390
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
World War ◽  
International Meeting ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Refugee Problem ◽  
Second World

The magnitude of the refugee problem in the former Yugoslavia, unprecedented in Europe since the Second World War, prompted the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to convene an international meeting in Geneva on 29 July 1992 aimed at mobilizing support for some 2,300,000 people who have fled the fighting since the beginning of the Yugoslav crisis in 1991.

Asian sub-continent Repatriation of 250,000 persons

1974 ◽  
Vol 14 (157) ◽  
pp. 179-188
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The Other ◽  
International Review ◽  
World War ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
Sheer Size ◽  
Relief Efforts ◽  
Second World

From September 1973 to March 1974, more than 250,000 persons have been moved from one side of the Asian sub-continent to the other in a vast operation involving the extensive co-operation of the ICRC. It was possible for this repatriation operation to be carried out only through the positive stand adopted by the three countries concerned and the co-operation shown by Switzerland, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the ICRC. Since the end of the Second World War, this is the most extensive repatriation operation undertaken by the ICRC, and its sheer size compels us to give in the pages that follow a summarized account of what has been accomplished. The relief efforts, though of considerable magnitude, undertaken by the ICRC since 1971 in support of prisoners, internees and civilians in the Asian sub-continent, will not be touched upon here, as they have been mentioned on several occasions in past issues of the International Review.

ON THE ROLE AND RELEVANCE OF THE UNITED NATIONS AND ITS FUTURE PROSPECTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-39
Author(s):  
Михаил Елизаров
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
International Peace ◽  
World War ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Second World

Born out of the ashes of the Second World War, the United Nations has made a major contribution to maintain international peace and security. Based on common goals, shared burdens and expenses, responsibility and accountability, the UN helped to reduce the risk of a repetition of a Word War, to reduce hunger and poverty, and promote human rights. But today, the legitimacy and credibility of the UN have been seriously undermined by the desire of some countries to act alone, abandoning multilateralism. So, do we need the UN today?

scholarly journals International bureaucracy and the United Nations system

2021 ◽  
pp. 002085232110387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svanhildur Thorvaldsdottir ◽  
Ronny Patz ◽  
Steffen Eckhard
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Second World War ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
World War ◽  
International Bureaucracy ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
United Nations System ◽  
Second World ◽  
Nations System

Built on the administrative system of the League of Nations, since the Second World War, the United Nations has grown into a sizeable, complex and multilevel system of several dozen international bureaucracies. Outside of a brief period in the 1980s, and despite growing scholarship on international public administrations over the past two decades, there have been few publications in the International Review of Administrative Sciences on the evolution of the United Nations system and its many public administrations. The special issue ‘International Bureaucracy and the United Nations System’ aims to encourage renewed scholarly focus on this global level of public administration. This introduction makes the case for why studying the United Nations’ bureaucracies matters from a public administration perspective, takes stock of key literature and discusses how the seven articles contribute to key substantive and methodological advancements in studying the administrations of the United Nations system.

scholarly journals Det negative omslag i ‘Aldrig igen!’ – om historiepolitiske manipulationer af moralske imperativer

2018 ◽  
pp. 41-52
Author(s):  
Ditte Marie Munch Hansen
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Categorical Imperative ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Ethnic Violence ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Genocide Convention ◽  
World War ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Second World

In Negative Dialektik, Theodor W. Adorno claimed that after the Second World War a new categorical imperative was imposed on mankind: namely, to prevent Auschwitz – or something similar – from happening again. Today – 60 years after the United Nations Genocide Convention came into effect – it is difficult to remain optimistic about the preventive character of Adorno’s “Never Again!” imperative. In spite of its existence, the second half of the 20th Century was filled with ethnic violence andgenocide. This article undertakes a philosophical analysis of the “Never Again!” refrain and questions whether this new imperative is as preventive as we assume. The analysis looks at how Serbian nationalism used (and misused) history and expressions as “Never again!”. This example shows us that the impulse of moral abhorrence in “Never again!” does not necessarily lead to preventing atrocity, but can be an incitement to initiate new ones.

scholarly journals Refugees: Challenges to Protection

2001 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy S. Goodwin-Gill
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
High Time ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The Future ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Year 2000

By the end of the year 2000, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees will have been in existence for 50 years –which is probably some sort of record for an organization originally set up with just a three-year mandate. There were many reasons for so limiting the successor agency to the International Refugee Organization, but it is doubtful whether anyone seriously thought that refugee problems would be resolved so quickly, or indeed that UNHCR would develop into the highly operational, visible and extensively funded entity that we see today. Fifty years of experience nevertheless suggests that it is high time for an audit, for an evaluation of strengths, weaknesses and achievements, and a little strategic thinking about the future.

The Unexpected Stabilization of Control

2019 ◽  
pp. 126-147
Author(s):  
Brendan O’Leary
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Second World

This chapter emphasizes how the Second World War unexpectedly stabilized the system of control in Northern Ireland. In the late 1930s the Northern government, like that of Newfoundland, faced possible bankruptcy, and the UUP leadership looked stale and challenged. At the same time, independent Ireland was showing evidence of consolidation of its sovereignty, economic development, and stability. The Second World War, and the eventual US leadership of the United Nations against the Axis powers, reversed the rolling out of these patterns. How and why Ulster Unionists benefited more than Irish nationalists from the Second World War is explained.

Part 3 The United Nations: What it Does, 23 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Higgins Dame Rosalyn, DBE, QC ◽  
Webb Philippa ◽  
Akande Dapo ◽  
Sivakumaran Sandesh ◽  
Sloan James
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Refugee Problem ◽  
Regular Session

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was established by the General Assembly in 1950. UNHCR was initially created for a provisional period of three years, its being provided in the Statute that the arrangements for the Office were to be revisited at the eighth regular session of the General Assembly ‘with a view to determining whether the Office should be continued beyond 31 December 1953’. Between 1953 and 2003, the mandate of the UNHCR was extended periodically, for a period of five years at a time, making it more difficult for it to engage in long-term planning of its work. Only in 2004 did the General Assembly remove the temporal limitation attached to the UNHCR, authorizing the continuation of the Office ‘until the refugee problem is solved’. This chapter discusses the UNHCR’s position within the UN system, its structure, location, mandate, and role.

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