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Our budget, which in its first year was US$300,000, grew to US$8.6 billion in 2019. UNHCR now has more than 18,879 personnel working in 137 countries. In some parts of the world, such as Africa and Latin America, the 1951 Refugee Convention has been strengthened by additional regional legal instruments. We have also been asked to use our expertise to help many internally displaced by conflict and expanded our role in helping stateless people. They were cutting aftermath on all sides, which gave the neighbourhood, this gusty autumn morning, an untimely smell of hay. The start of the 21st century has seen UNHCR help with major refugee crises in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. A second mowing the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season. In 1981, we received a second Nobel Peace Prize for what had become worldwide assistance to refugees. We also helped uprooted people in Asia and Latin America over the following two decades.

El reportero nos mostr imgenes de las secuelas del. (F) The news reporter showed us images of the aftermath of the hurricane. This uprising and its aftermath shaped the way humanitarian organizations would deal with refugee crises in the future.ĭuring the 1960s, the decolonization of Africa produced the first of that continent's numerous refugee crises. (F) A change in the gun policy was a part of the aftermath after the shooting.Parte de las consecuencias tras el tiroteo fue el cambio en la poltica de armas.

Recognizing the Hungarians as ' prima facie' refugees, UNHCR led efforts to resettle them. In 1956, during the Hungarian Revolution, 200,000 fled to neighbouring Austria. But it was not long before we faced our next major emergency. In 1954, UNHCR won the Nobel Peace Prize for its groundbreaking work in Europe.

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