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Norwegian explorer, scientist, statesman, author, and Nobel laureate. Nansen was a pioneer in the field of applied sciences ranging from zoology, marine biology and oceanography to sociology. He was proved to be exceptional in most fields. At the age of 26, he completed his doctoral thesis on the central nervous system. At an early stage, his search for knowledge compelled him to explore the unknown features of the Polar Regions. He explored Greenland in 1882 and again in 1888. His expeditions through the Arctic from 1893 to 1896 are among the greatest exploration adventures of all time, but they were also part of a pioneering effort in the science of oceanography. With his famous ship called “Fram” he attained 86°14' N, the most northerly point reached up to that time. From 1910 to 1914 he was engaged in various explorations in the North Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean, and Siberia. Through his growing stature as an explorer and scientist, Nansen became a leader among his contemporaries. In spite of his desire to continue his scientific explorations, he accepted King Haakon's appointment to become Norway's ambassador to London, thus starting his engagement in world affairs. In 1905 Nansen took part in the movement that led to the peaceful separation of Norway and Sweden and served (1906-1908) as the first Norwegian minister to Britain.

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25. Speeches And Videos: Nobel Peace Prize Centennial Symposium by Mr. Ruud Lubbers united nations high commissioner for refugees to As high commissionerfor refugees, today there are than fifty years, my office has worked http://www.earthcharter.org/resources/speeches/unhcr.htm

Home About Us News and Events Country Activities ... Resources GO TO: PUBLICATIONS WEBSITES ESSAYS AND PAPERS SPEECHES AND VIDEOS Address by Mr. Ruud Lubbers United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to the Nobel Peace Prize Centennial Symposium Oslo, 6 December 2001 It is an honour to address this symposium. This gathering of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates has an important role to play in defining a way forward for humanity. UNHCR has received the Nobel Peace Prize twice. First, in 1954, for its work in finding solutions for refugees who were still homeless in the aftermath of the Second World War; and then in 1981, for its role in managing the Vietnamese refugee crisis. In the more than five decades of UNHCR's existence, the refugee problem has not gone away. On the contrary, refugees remain a potent symbol of the world's failure to put an end to war and persecution. In its 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the UN General Assembly affirmed that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. The Declaration proclaims that no one should be held in slavery or subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment. All are held to be entitled to equal protection of the law, to move about freely, to found a family, to own a property, to express their views, and to practice their chosen religion. All are held to be entitled to an adequate standard of living, employment, education, and health care. In the years since 1948, governments have adopted many instruments to attain these fundamental human rights. Despite this, gross violations of human rights continue to be perpetrated in numerous countries. War, genocide, persecution, political repression, “ethnic cleansing”, terrorism and abject poverty continue to deprive individuals of their homes, their families, their work, their schools, their places of worship, and their access to education and health care. Millions of people are deprived of their liberty, security and dignity.

26. Nobel Prize Winners For Peace 1953, Marshall, George C. US. 1954, united nations high commissioner forRefugees, office of the, (founded 1951). 1957, Pearson, Lester B. Canada. http://www.britannica.com/nobel/table/peace.html

27. United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees, Office Of The united nations high commissioner for refugees, office of the solutions to refugeeproblems, offers international protection to refugees, coordinates the http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0850076.html

Government Grant packages for business, homes and more...Claim your share! Looking for a bargain auto? Tranny broke? Engine blown? Dealing with Venture Capitalists is like playing poker..Learn how here! All Infoplease All Almanacs General Entertainment Sports Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Infoplease Home Almanacs Atlas Dictionary ... Fact Monster Kids' reference Info:Daily Fun facts Homework Center Newsletter You've got info! Help Site Map Visit related sites from: Family Education Network Encyclopedia United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Office of the (UNHCR), established Jan., 1951, by the General Assembly. It superseded the International Refugee Organization. It seeks permanent solutions to refugee problems, offers international protection to refugees, coordinates the activities of voluntary agencies, and assists the most needy refugee groups. It was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1954 and 1981. In the late 1950s the office of UNHCR aided refugees from Hungary, Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, and Chinese refugees in Hong Kong. Since the 1960s most of its economic assistance has gone to refugees created by tribal and political conflicts and civil wars. In the 1980s and 90s such conflicts have taken it to the Horn of Africa, Central America, Pakistan, Southeast Asia, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and the former Yugoslavia. See L. Holborn

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UNHCR is mandated by the United Nations to lead and coordinate international action for the world-wide protection of refugees and the resolution of refugee problems. According to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees , a refugee is a person who "owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country." UNHCR's primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. The organization strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another state, and to return home voluntarily. By assisting refugees to return to their own country or to settle in another country, UNHCR also seeks lasting solutions to their plight. International refugee law provides an essential framework of principles for UNHCR's humanitarian activities. UNHCR's efforts are mandated by the organization's Statute and guided by the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol . At present, 144 states, including

29. Office Of The U.N. High Commissioner For Refugees UNHCR'S core mandate is to • Provide legal protection for refugees and to seekdurable office of the united nations high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR http://www.un.org/Pubs/ourlives/unhcr.htm

OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES Did you know that... • There are nearly 23 million refugees in the world, which equals the combined populations of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. • Eighty per cent of refugees are women and children, and hundreds of thousands of them go to sleep hungry every night. • Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud and Rudolf Nureyev were all refugees who, along with many others, later became famous and left their individual mark on history. It was a nightmare An anonymous Rwandan woman remembers her ordeal in central Africa. "How can I ever forget the scene where my husband was massacred right in my presence. It was a nightmare. It was a nightmare. I live through it every day and it is engraved forever in my memory". My sister disappeared Amra Radic is a young Bosnian girl who lives in the mountains of Switzerland. "When I was very young, I lived in a small Bosnian village. Bosnia was beautiful. Better than anywhere else. But the war broke out and I saw many people killed. Houses were set on fire. My father and sister, Elma, went to my grandfather's house but the soldiers came to the village and killed people. My mother tried to reach Elma but there was an explosion at the bridge and my mother couldn't reach her. We eventually came to Switzerland but we don't know where Elma, who is now nine years old, is". UNHCR assists more than twenty two million people who have fled war or persecution in Africa, Asia and in the heart of Europe where several million people were uprooted in the Balkans in the continent's biggest refugee crisis in 50 years.

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Home Encyclopeadia U U - Uni ... Rope Ladders Slider Search: The Web Encyclopaedia Shopping Index Help Encyclopaedia United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Office of the (UNHCR), established Jan., 1951, by the General Assembly. It superseded the International Refugee Organization. It seeks permanent solutions to refugee problems, offers international protection to refugees, coordinates the activities of voluntary agencies, and assists the most needy refugee groups. It was awarded the 1954 Nobel Peace Prize. In the late 1950s the office of UNHCR it aided refugees from Hungary, Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, and Chinese refugees in Hong Kong. Since the 1960s most of its economic assistance has gone to refugees created by tribal and political conflicts and civil wars. In the 1980s and 90s such conflicts have taken it to the Horn of Africa, Central America, Pakistan, and Southeast Asia, aiding a total of over ten million refugees in 1982, spending $428.7 million in 1989. In the early 1990s it was also active in Iraq, Iran, Turkey and the former Yugoslavia. See Louise Holborn

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Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Page history Special pages Set my user preferences My watchlist Recently updated pages Upload image files Image list Registered users Site statistics Random article Orphaned articles Orphaned images Popular articles Most wanted articles Short articles Long articles Newly created articles Interlanguage links All pages by title Blocked IP addresses Maintenance page External book sources Printable version Talk Log in Help Other languages: Dansk United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Headquartered in Geneva Switzerland , the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) protects and supports refugees at the request of a government or the United Nations and assists in their return or resettlement. UNHCR was established on January 1 and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in and The post of High Commissioner has been held by: Ruud Lubbers January 1 onwards Sadako Ogata Thorvald Stoltenberg , Jan-Nov 1990 Jean-Pierre Hocké Poul Hartling Sadruddin Aga Khan Félix Schnyder ... Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart External links Official web site Edit this page Discuss this page Page history ... Related changes Other languages: Dansk Main Page About Wikipedia Recent changes It was last modified 19:24 Mar 9, 2003. All text is available under the terms of the

35. Nobel Peace Prize - Wikipedia 1953 George Catlett Marshall (USA) for the Marshall Plan. 1954 The Officeof the united nations high commissioner for refugees. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize

Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Page history Special pages Set my user preferences My watchlist Recently updated pages Upload image files Image list Registered users Site statistics Random article Orphaned articles Orphaned images Popular articles Most wanted articles Short articles Long articles Newly created articles Interlanguage links All pages by title Blocked IP addresses Maintenance page External book sources Printable version Talk Log in Help Other languages: Dansk Deutsch Esperanto Nederlands ... Polski Nobel Peace Prize From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Nobel Peace Prize is one of five Nobel Prizes bequested by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel . Four of the five prizes are awarded in Stockholm each year, but Nobel had stipulated in his will that the Peace Prize could not be awarded in Sweden. Instead the Norwegian capital of Oslo was chosen as the award site and a Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee is appointed to select the laureate for the Peace Prize. According to the will of Alfred Nobel the prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses". Laureates This is a list of the Nobel Peace Prize laureates: Jean Henri Dunant (Switzerland), founder of the

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World Tibet Network News Published by the Canada Tibet Committee Wednesday, December 5, 2001 1. Laureates attending the 100th anniversary of Nobel Peace Prize OSLO, Dec 5 (AFP) - Here is the list of Nobel Peace Prize laureates who will be attending a week of celebrations in Oslo starting Thursday to mark the 100th anniversary of the first Nobel Prizes: 2001: The United Nations and its secretary general Kofi Annan (Ghana) 2000: Kim Dae-Jung (South Korea) 1999: Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) 1998: John Humes and David Trimble (Northern Ireland) 1997: The International Campaign to Ban Landmines 1996: Jose Ramos-Horta (East Timor) 1995: Joseph Rotblat (Britain) and the Pugwash movement 1992: Rigoberta Menchu (Guatemala) 1989: Dalai Lama (Tibet) 1988: United Nations Peacekeeping Forces 1987: Oscar Arias Sanchez (Costa Rica) 1986: Elie Wiesel (United States) 1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War 1984: Desmond Tutu (South Africa) 1983: Lech Walesa (Poland) 1981/1951: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1980: Adolfo Perez Esquivel (Argentina) 1977: Amnesty International 1976: Mairead Corrigan (Northern Ireland) 1970: Norman Borlaug (United States) 1969: International Labour Organisation 1965: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) 1963: International Committee of the Red Cross and the League of Red Cross Societies 1947: The Friends Service Council, The American Friends Service Committee

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S OUTHEAST A SIA R ESCUE F OUNDATION The Southeast Asia Rescue Foundation, Inc, also known as the Sea Rescue Foundation, is a 501 (c) (3) Federally tax-exempt non-profit charitable organization (EIN 43-1259211). The organization is listed in IRS Publication 78, September 1996 Revision, Volume 2, Page 716, and is incorporated under the laws of the State of Florida (N21860 and SC11034) to provide protection and assistance to refugees and others in distress in Southeast Asia, particularly Indo-China, and elsewhere. The SEA Rescue Foundation is also registered with the Registry of Charitable Trusts of the State of California (CT 72988) and with the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of Nevada (C22978-99). Southeast Asia Rescue Foundation, Inc. was founded by Theodore G. Schweitzer III in 1983 and has been assisting the neediest people in Southeast Asia and Indo-China ever since. Theodore Schweitzer has long been associated with The United Nations and The Office of The United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, having begun his refugee career with the UNHCR in Thailand in 1979. Theodore Schweitzer was born in Hannibal, Missouri

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Jimmy Carter 2001 United Nations (U.N.), Kofi Annan 2000 Kim Dae-jung 1999 Médecins Sans Frontières 1998 John Hume, David Trimble 1997 International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), Jody Williams 1996 Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta 1995 Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs 1994 Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin 1993 Nelson Mandela, Frederik Willem de Klerk 1992 Rigoberta Menchú Tum 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi 1990 Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev 1989 The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso ) 1988 United Nations Peace-keeping Forces 1987 Oscar Arias Sanchez 1986 Elie Wiesel 1985 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War 1984 Desmond Mpilo Tutu 1983 Lech Walesa 1982 Alva Myrdal, Alfonso García Robles 1981 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 1980 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel 1979 Mother Teresa 1978 Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin 1977 Amnesty International 1976 Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan

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Updated: 01 April, 2003 United Nations Medals of the United Nations (Official Website) (Aug 02) Dag Hammarskjold Medal - ST/SGB/2000/15 (pdf file) UN honours 108 Canadians who died as peacekeepers T he United Nations recognized the 108 Canadians who had lost their lives during UN peacekeeping missions by the end of 2001 a death toll suffered by no other country. All 108 were awarded the Dag Hammarskjold Medal, named for the Swedish UN Secretary-General who died in a plane crash while on a peace mission in 1961 in the Congo. On the plane with him had been Alice Lalande, a Canadian political officer, whose name was among the 108 honoured yesterday. The ceremony recognized a total of 720 people from 37 countries who died while on UN peace missions.) (May 02) Medals of the World: United Nations Megan C. Robertson UN Medals (As awarded to Canadians) (Veterans Affairs Canada) United Nations Medals (David Devine (Rusty Knight)) UN Medals (Specific to UK) (Britain's Small Wars) UN Korea Medal (Britain's Small Wars) UN Peacekeeping Operations (List of current and past operations) (UN Website) UN Security Council Documents (Listing and Search facilities) Liberia - ECOMOG Officers Leave Liberia - The last batch of West African peacekeepers (ECOMOG) who participated in the weapons destruction project in Liberia this effort and there were 56 of them are leaving the country, and a special ceremony was held at Liberia's Executive Mansion to mark their departure. On behalf of the Secretary-General, his Special Representative in Liberia, Felix C. Downes-Thomas, accepted the

40. Pravda.RU UNHCR Mission Monitors Chechnya Relief RELIEF A mission of the united nations high commissioner for refugees visited Znamenskoye theduty officer of Makhachkala's municipal interior office. http://english.pravda.ru/region/2001/06/02/6684.html

Jun, 02 2001 Made in Pravda.ru Pravda.ru comes forward with working out conceptions and creating new corporative representative sites, as well as with promotion of new products in the Net. More in detail Accidents CIS Culture ... About [an error occurred while processing this directive] Pravda.RU:Regions of Russia:More in detail UNHCR MISSION MONITORS CHECHNYA RELIEF A mission of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees visited Znamenskoye village in Chechnya today for firsthand information about humanitarian efforts and refugee needs. Represented on the mission are another three UN agenciesthe UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), the WHO (World Health Organisation) and the coordinator board for UN officer safetyand the international charity, Swiss Emergency Relief. The mission met with members of the local administration and humanitarian organisations. 43 charitable convoys have reached the North Caucasus since January with UNHCR involvement. The UNHCR office supplies Chechnya with building materials on the project, One Warm Dry Room. 300 households have by now received its aid in the villages Chishki, Pionerskoye and Aghishty. Seven schools will be repaired and equipped on UNHCR donations. The UNHCR has spent US$975,000 on North Caucasian relief since the year's start. Refugees are entitled to another three million dollar aid on a mission contract with its partners responsible for the practical aspect.

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