К 50-летию Управления Верховного комиссара ООН по делам беженцев

Abstract

The article explores five decades of the UNHCR's activities to assist refugees. It relates humanitarian tasks which the UNHCR had to face over this period, describes the conflicts, which caused the problems the Office had to cope with, traces people's personal stories and includes interviews with refugees. The keynote of the article can be summed up in the words of a former High Commissioner Poul Hartling: "We hope the day will come when we shall be able to issue a last press release simply by saying that the last refugee has gone home or been resettled in a new country".