Opening Statement by Mr. António Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner...
Mr. Chairman, Honourable Ministers, Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to Geneva for this 60th session of the Executive Committee. I would like to extend an especially...
View ArticleUNHCR chief opens international meeting in Geneva on urban refugees
More than 300 UNHCR partners attend High Commissioner's Dialogue, which this year focuses on problems faced by refugees and internally displaced in urban areas
View ArticleHigh Commissioner's Preface to Portuguese version of Samantha Power's book:...
All entities have their own peculiar characteristics. On arriving at UNHCR in June 2005 to take up the position of High Commissioner, I learned quickly of one of these - a predilection on the part of...
View ArticleMaking the most of human mobility, by António Guterres, United Nations High...
Human mobility ranks alongside population growth, urbanization, climate change and resource scarcity as one of humankind's megatrends. It is also, and always has been, one of the ways that people in...
View ArticleHigh Commissioner Guterres sees mandate renewed for further five year term
Guterres thanks UN General Assembly and points to ‘enormous challenges ahead, including growing threats to humanitarian and asylum space'
View ArticleGeneral Assembly renews mandate for High Commissioner Guterres
High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres has welcomed yesterday's decision by the UN General Assembly to renew his mandate for a further five years. In a statement Mr. Guterres said he was...
View ArticleUNHCR chief says 2009 "worst" year for voluntary repatriation in two decades
2009 Global Trends Report Geneva, Tuesday 15 June 2010 Some 43.3 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide at the end of 2009, the highest number of people uprooted by conflict...
View ArticleLook Who's Coming to Europe, by António Guterres
High Commissioner's Op-Ed published in the International Herald Tribune and New York Times, 9 May 2011 I recall vividly the intoxicating feeling of freedom and promise brought about by the "Carnation...
View ArticleHigh Commissioner's message for World Refugee Day, 20 June 2011
More than sixty years ago, Europe's most destructive war left millions of traumatized people homeless and displaced. Shocked by the atrocities that had occurred, world leaders vowed to elevate the...
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