Introduction: Thinking Places: Indigenous Humanities and Education by Marie Battiste, Cathryn McConaghy

“…It does, however, promote Indigenous humanity as affirmed in Article 1 of the 1966 UNESCO Declaration of the Principles of International Cultural Co-operation: “Each culture has a dignity and value which must be respected and preserved” (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 1966). In the Eurocentric versions of humanity, this concept is sometimes referred to as cultural diversity; yet Indigenous peoples prefer the concept of Indigenous humanities. …”
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Implementers? The role of international organisations in EU funding for external migration policy by Den Hertog Leonhard

“…Three organizations are looked at in the context of this paper: The International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD).…”
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Protecting the right to privacy in the fight against terrorism by Korff, Douwe

“…Issue paper of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe. …”
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Regime Complexity and International Organizations: UNHCR as a Challenged Institution by Betts, A

“…Through a case study of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees' response to an increasingly competitive institutional environment, it argues that the concept of challenged institutions highlights the dilemmas faced by multilateral organizations in a rapidly changing landscape of global governance. © 2013 Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.…”

The early drawings of Malaya ( 1880-1894) by Frank Swettenham by Abdullah, Sarena

“…Frank Swettenham or Sir FrankAthelstaneSwettenham (1850.1946) was the Former Resident. the first Resident General of the Federated Malay States (F.M.S), then the Governor of the Straits Settlement and the High Commissioner of the F.M.S. His skill, tact, tolerant cynicism and self confidence, supported by his fluency in the Malay language and his vast knowledge of the Malay custom had helped him in developing and building relationship with the Malay Sultans, which eventually led to the formation of the F.M.S. and changed the British policy towards the Malay States after 1860s.…”
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Exploring the Relationship between Hutu Refugees’ Protracted Situation and Insecurity in the Great Lakes Region by Callixte Kavuro

“…This was done in cooperation with the Rwandan government (i.e. the persecutor) under auspices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The purpose of this paper is to illustrate that the forced repatriation resulted not only in the resistance of the Hutu refugees, but also in turning the territory of the DRC into a fully-fledged battlefield for the Hutus and Tutsis. …”
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The Canadian Input: The 34th Executive Committee UNHCR Geneva, Oct. 14, 1983 by J. Alan Beesley

“…Alan Beesley, in the opening address to the UNHCR Executive Committee, genuflected approriately to support the High Commissioner's efforts with respect to the fundamental issue of protection and the need to address the root causes of refugee situations as outlined in the Aga Khan's report. …”
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Childhood Statelessness: Critiquing International Norms and Enforcement Strategies by Biju R K

“…Over the past decade, there has been renewed interest in and commitment to resolving the endemic problem of statelessness, most clearly exemplified by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ Global Action Plan to End Statelessness 2014-24, which sets out to end statelessness by 2024. …”
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Historical Ethnography: Key Characteristics and the Journey Before, During, and After the Archival Field by Nir Rotem

“…Drawing from the literature and sharing vignettes from my research at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees archive, I advance in two stages. …”
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Home sweet home! Repatriation, reintegration and land allocation in Afghanistan by Nassim Majidi

“…The world has witnessed the largest voluntary repatriation program in recorded history (Kronenfeld, 2011), with over 4.6 million returnees assisted by the Government of Afghanistanand the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). While in 2002 Afghanistan was synonymous with return, in 2012 Afghanistanis synonymous with a stalling voluntary repatriation process, growing numbers of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and trends of mixed migration, with families, men, and unaccompanied children leaving Afghanistan legally or irregularly in the hope of a better life elsewhere. …”
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Surveilling the Revolutionaries: Armenian Revolutionaries, Spatial Politics, and Intelligence Activities in the Late Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire by Arda Akıncı

“… This paper, by focusing on a secret report delivered by the Ottoman High Commissioner in Egypt—Gazi Ahmed Muhtar Pasha—to the imperial center regarding the Armenian revolutionaries’ movements, aims to examine three important phenomena of the late Ottoman history. …”
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Prospects for Australian-Led Regional Cooperation On Asylum Seeker and Refugee Issues by Sian Troath

“…The nomination of former Refugee High Commissioner Antonio Guterres for Secretary-General, the ongoing and intensifying condemnations of Australia’s offshore detention centres on human rights grounds, and the ruling of the Papua New Guinea Supreme Court regarding detention centres on Manus Island, indicate that the Australian government needs a new policy on asylum-seekers. …”
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REFUGEE CHILDREN UNDER THE MALAYSIAN LEGAL FRAMEWORK by Dina Imam Supaat

“…Discussion will touch on the role and mandate of the United Nation’s High Commissioner for Refugee’s (UNHCR) office, to protect refugee, Malaysia’s commitment as a state party to the United Nation Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and it’s refusal to ratify the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugee (CRSR). …”
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Reflections on sensing practice and power: A Response to Fleur Johns by Anne Alexander

“…Johns’ exploration of the questions of power and agency that are posed by an investigation into the implications of adopting new sensing technologies by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is important and timely because it opens up a wider discussion about the role played by Machine Learning (ML) in a wide range of social contexts, prompting us to ask about the social relations through which the technology itself is produced and used.…”
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Pakistan Chronicle by U.A.B. Razia Akter Banu

“…In the 1960s. the author observed that India considered Kashmir an integral part of itself and nonnegotiable, and that position has not yet changed. As the British high commissioner, the author could give a firsthand description of national and international forces that strained Pakistan’s relationship with the West, especially Britain and America, and of how Pakistan gradually developed a pro-Chinese foreign policy ...…”
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Hirschfeld als zondebok of heilige by M. Fennema

“…And how he performed as High Commissioner in Jakarta? Why is there not a single shred of interest for the 18 commissioner’s posts that he held between 1952 and 1961? …”
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Japanese Foreign Policy towards the Republic of Croatia: Preventive Diplomacy and Post-conflict Reconstruction 1994 - 1997 by Marcela Peric

“…The article particularly focuses on the roles played by Yasushi Akashi, the head of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Sadako Ogata, through whom Japan provided aid during the humanitarian crisis. …”
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Hirschfeld als zondebok of heilige by M. Fennema

“…And how he performed as High Commissioner in Jakarta? Why is there not a single shred of interest for the 18 commissioner’s posts that he held between 1952 and 1961? …”
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Recollections of War and Displacement from the Somali Global Diaspora by Natoschia Scruggs

“…In June 2018, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimated that there were 68.5 million people displaced worldwide due to wars, violence and persecution; 25.4 million of them were refugees (Edwards 2018). …”
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The Romanian Legislative Reform in the Field of Integration for Beneficiaries of International Protection by Eugen Bogdan Preda

“…Indisputably, war, social unrest and natural catastrophes of the XIXth and XXth Century has determined mostly Western countries to establish new policies and international law, like the 1951 Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees and the creation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). As part of new relations with UNHCR, and later the membership to the European Union and NATO, post-communist Romania has developed asylum procedures and assumed responsibility to integrate refugees in our society. …”
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