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A Man For All Nations - Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

Posted December 16th, 2020 by librarian-hd

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Sunday, 1978, January 1

On a clear day, with binoculars, you can look across lake Geneva from Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan's office to the towers of his seventh century Chateau Bellerive, at least you could until yesterday, when he resigned after 12 years as UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Outside are well-kept lawns, winding paths, splendid great evergreens. It all seems a million miles away from the squalor and misery one associates with the very word refugee.

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Speech by Prince Sadrudin Aga Khan the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, at the European Consultative Meeting 1968-04-01

Posted January 6th, 2022 by librarian-hd

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UNHCR

I assumed office as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees at the beginning of this year. One of the first tasks to which I had to turn my attention was the problem faced by European governments with regard to the increased number of refugees and asylum-seekers moving into European States. One aspect of this phenomenon has been the fact that, in recent years, the majority of asylum-seekers entering Europe are from non-European countries far away from the region.

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