UNHCR
... unhcr. ... General Assembly, The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), has helped over 50 million people. The UNHCR is an organization developed to help homeless European refugees resettle after the global conflict. ... The UNHCR has won two Nobel Peace prizes in 1954 and 1981. ... UNHCR is one of the worlds principal humanitarian agencies. ... The UNHCR also provides assistance for financial grants, food, shelter, tools, schools and clinics. ... For example during the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s and later in Kosovo, the UNHCR was too overwhelmed and had to provide temporary protection. ... The UNHCR can best be told in statistics. ... Jolie is a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. ... The UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, Angelina Jolie, made a $200,000 donation to UNHCRs’ work in Kenya. The second article that I found interesting reads; Colombians have legitimate reasons to claim asylum, suggests UNHCR. Because of the increasing number of displaced Colombians, the UNHCR had to release a set of guidelines recommending that when examining asylum claims to consider Colombians situation. ... So the UNHCR has changed their guidelines and is told that when examining asylum claims to consider that most Colombians have no opportunity to find safety anywhere else in their homeland as an substitute to fleeing across an international border.