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Christopher Gunness
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is a relief and human development agency, providing education, health care, social services and emergency aid to over 4.7 million Palestine refugees living in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, as well as in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. It is the only agency dedicated to helping refugees from a specific region or conflict. It is separate from and created before UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, which is the only other UN agency aiding refugees, dedicated to aiding all other refugees in the world. Former commissioners-general of UNRWA Since 1962, the head of UNRWA has been titled Commissioner-General: * Pierre Krähenbühl (Switzerland) - appointed Commissioner-General 30 March 2014 by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. He resigned on 6 November 2019 amid allegations of corruption and mismanagement. * Filippo Grandi (Italy) - Commissioner-General from 2010 to 2014, appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UNRWA
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is a UN agency that supports the relief and human development of Palestinian refugees. UNRWA's mandate encompasses Palestinians displaced by the 1948 Palestine War and subsequent conflicts, as well as their descendants,UNRWA in Figures . including legally adopted children. As of 2019, more than 5.6 million Palestinians are registered with UNRWA as refugees. UNRWA was established in 1949 by the (UNGA) to provide relief to all refugees resulting from the 1948 conflict. It also provided relief to Jewish and Arab Palestine refugees inside the State of Israel foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Hansen (UN)
Peter Hansen (born 2 June 1941 in Aalborg), a Danish national, was commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) from 1996 to 2005. Academic career After completing graduate and postgraduate studies in political science at Aarhus University in 1966, Hansen joined the staff of the university as an assistant professor in international relations. Diplomatic career In 1978, Hansen joined the United Nations as assistant secretary-general for programme planning and coordination. Between 1985 and 1992, he served as assistant secretary-general and executive director of the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations. In March 1994, he took over the post of Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. During his UN tenure, he has served as chairman of the organization's appointment and promotion board and various committees and as the secretary-general's representative to the W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Davis (UN)
John Herbert Davis (October 5, 1904 – February 28, 1988) was an American academic and diplomat, best known in his early career for his work in agribusiness (a term he helped coin), and in his later career for heading the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Academic and business career Davis attended the Iowa State University of Science and Technology, where he earned a bachelor's degree, and the University of Minnesota, where he earned Masters and Ph.D. degrees in agricultural economics. He then taught in various positions in the Iowa schools from 1928 to 1939, with a break in 1935–36 during which he worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. From 1939 he became involved in agriculture-related New Deal agencies, working for the Commodity Credit Corporation, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, and National Wool Marketing Corporation, among other agencies. From 1953 to 1954, he served as Assistant Secretary of Agricultu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurence Michelmore
Laurence Michelmore (1909 – April 10, 1997) was UNRWA's Commissioner-General from 1964 to 1971. Michelmore had been senior director of the UN's Technical Assistance Board, deputy director of personnel, and administrative consultant of the UN Special Fund and the Secretary-General's representative on Malaysia.Benjamin N. Schiff, ''Refugees Unto the Third Generation: UN Aid to Palestinians'', (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), p. 293. See also * List of Directors and Commissioners-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is a relief and human development agency, providing education, health care, social services and emergency aid to over 4.7 million Palestine refugees living in J ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Michelmore, Laurence UNRWA officials American diplomats 1909 births 1997 deaths American officials of the Unit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rennie (UN)
Sir John Shaw Rennie (12 January 1917 – 12 August 2002) was a British civil servant and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East's Commissioner-General from 1971 to 1977.Benjamin N. Schiff, ''Refugees Unto the Third Generation: UN Aid to Palestinians'', (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), p. 293. Early life John Rennie was born in Glasgow and educated at Hillhead High School, Glasgow University and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1951 Rennie was appointed Britain's deputy colonial secretary for Mauritius.RENNIE, Sir John Shaw '''', A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007. Retrieved 19 December 2010 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas McElhiney
Thomas Watkins McElhiney (January 22, 1919, West Union, West Virginia, United States – January 17, 1998, Baltimore) was an American diplomat and UNRWA's Commissioner-General from 1977 to 1979. McElhiney grew up in West Virginia, New York City and the Mount Washington neighborhood of Baltimore. '''', January 24, 1998 Educated at for undergrad and studied after at |
Swedish Broadcasting Corporation
Sveriges Radio AB (, "Sweden's Radio") is Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcaster. Sveriges Radio is a public limited company, owned by an independent foundation, previously funded through a licensing fee, the level of which is decided by the Swedish Riksdag. As of 1 January 2019, the funds stem from standard taxation. No advertising is permitted. Its legal status could be described as that of a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization. History The company – which was founded as AB Radiotjänst ("Radio Service Ltd") by a consortium of newspaper companies, the TT news agency, and radio manufacturing interests on 21 March 1924 – made its first broadcast on 1 January 1925: a relay of High Mass from St James's Church in Stockholm. It was officially renamed Sveriges Radio in 1957. Sveriges Radio was originally responsible for all broadcasting in Sweden, both radio and television, and hosted the 1975 Eurovision Song Contest. A reorganization in 1979 saw it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olof Rydbeck
Olof Rydbeck (15 April 1913 – 23 December 1995) was a Swedish diplomat, head of Sveriges Radio between 1955 and 1970, Sweden's ambassador to the UN, and a Commissioner-General of UNRWA. Early life Rydbeck was born on 15 April 1913 in Djursholm, Sweden. He was the son of bank manager Oscar Rydbeck and Signe Olsson. He married Monica Schnell in 1940. Education Rydbeck finished a bachelor's degree in 1934 and a master's degree in 1936 at Uppsala University Career and later life Rydbeck served in Sweden's first mission to the UN, led by Östen Undén. In 1952, he was appointed to the Foreign Ministry's press officer. In 1955, Rydbeck left the diplomatic service and became Director-General of Sveriges Radio (the Swedish national broadcasting organization), a position which he held for fifteen years. In 1970 Rydbeck returned to the diplomatic service and represented Sweden at the UN in New York from 1970 to 1976. During this time he was appointed by the Secretary General to negotia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javier Perez De Cuellar
Javier may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * Javier, in video game ''Advance Wars: Dual Strike'' * Javier Rios, a character in the Monsters, Inc. franchise. * Javier (album), ''Javier'' (album), a 2003 album by the American singer Javier Colon, known as Javier People * Javier (name) Places * Javier, Spain * Javier, Leyte, Philippines See also * Hurricane Javier (other) * San Javier (other) * Xavier (other) * Xavier (given name) * Xavier (surname) {{Disambig, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Giacomelli
Giorgio Giacomelli (25 January 1930, in Milan – 8 February 2017, in Rome) was an Italian diplomat who represented Italy as ambassador to Somalia and Syria and was UNRWA's Commissioner-General from 1985 to 1991. Biography Giacomelli was the Italian Ambassador to Somalia from 1973 to 1976 and Ambassador to Syria from 1976 to 1980. In 1981 he became Director-General for Emigration and Social Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and then, until October 1985, Director–General of the Department of Cooperation and Development. From 1985 to 1991 he was Commissioner-General of UNWRA. Giacomelli left UNRWA when he was appointed by UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar to become head of the UN's anti-drug campaign.Benjamin N. Schiff, ''Refugees Unto the Third Generation: UN Aid to Palestinians'', (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), p. 293. Honors Order of Merit of the Italian Republic 1st Class / Knight Grand Cross – 27 December 1993 See also * List of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USSR
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev ( Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
İlter Türkmen
İlter Türkmen (born 8 November 1927) is a Turkish people, Turkish diplomat and politician. Early life Son of Behçet Türkmen (1899–1968), who between 1953 and 1957 was the director of the Turkish National Security Service (Turkey), National Security Service (MAH). Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva in 1983, 1985, Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations in New York, in 1988, he served as Ambassador to Paris and retired in 1991. Following his retirement from the United Nations Secretary-General between 1991 and 1996 with the title of Assistant to the Palestinian Refugee Relief Organization has worked as General Commissioner for international duty. Parliamentary candidate in the 1995 general elections, the MHP has been İzmir, but not selected. A period of Galatasaray University, has taught in the Department of International Relations. He is currently writing a letter foreign policy in the Hürriyet newspaper. Türkmen National Security Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
