The Unhcr
I.Hypothesis and Rationale A). Hypotheis
* UNHCR responds to the challenges in the protection of the refugees by increasing the cooperation resulting in the uplift conditions of Refugees today.
B). Rationale
* The world politics is now full of tensions, complexities, and chaotic. As we can see from the recent crisis for example, Libya (March 2011). Immediately, the number of more than 200,000 people had fled from Libya, mostly migrant workers from Egypt and Tunisia but including many more nationalities. This is the largest international evacuation since the 1st Gulf War (1990) (www.unhcr.org). The raising of crisis is alarmed as one of the global trends and causes a lot of displaced persons, asylum seekers and refugees. Not only the raising crisis, but also the existing wars, ethic cleanings, and civil wars results challenges of protection of people. Who can these people and the world count on in this kind of situation? Our very first assumption was the United Nations should be a key actor but which agency, what will be possible actions and will they actually be able to help those people are our primary inquiries. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was noticed in our mind as they are the UN refugee agency. UNHCR has played important roles in many world situations since 1951 and seems to be success for examples, saving boat people lives from South China Sea in 1975 and in 1989, UNHCR helped some 41,000 refugees from Angola, Zambia and others African countries went home. As a result, our group would like to conduct more researches whether the organization performs their job perfectly or it is just a deception. We also would like to analyze their successes and failures and study the future trends of refuge.
II.UNHCR Background history
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly with a three-year mandate to complete its work and then disband.
* UNHCR responds to the challenges in the protection of the refugees by increasing the cooperation resulting in the uplift conditions of Refugees today.
B). Rationale
* The world politics is now full of tensions, complexities, and chaotic. As we can see from the recent crisis for example, Libya (March 2011). Immediately, the number of more than 200,000 people had fled from Libya, mostly migrant workers from Egypt and Tunisia but including many more nationalities. This is the largest international evacuation since the 1st Gulf War (1990) (www.unhcr.org). The raising of crisis is alarmed as one of the global trends and causes a lot of displaced persons, asylum seekers and refugees. Not only the raising crisis, but also the existing wars, ethic cleanings, and civil wars results challenges of protection of people. Who can these people and the world count on in this kind of situation? Our very first assumption was the United Nations should be a key actor but which agency, what will be possible actions and will they actually be able to help those people are our primary inquiries. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was noticed in our mind as they are the UN refugee agency. UNHCR has played important roles in many world situations since 1951 and seems to be success for examples, saving boat people lives from South China Sea in 1975 and in 1989, UNHCR helped some 41,000 refugees from Angola, Zambia and others African countries went home. As a result, our group would like to conduct more researches whether the organization performs their job perfectly or it is just a deception. We also would like to analyze their successes and failures and study the future trends of refuge.
II.UNHCR Background history
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly with a three-year mandate to complete its work and then disband.
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