The Nobel Peace Prize 1955
Awarded on: 1955-11-05
"for its efforts to heal the wounds of war by providing help and protection to refugees all over the world"
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Born: 1950-12-14 in Geneva, Switzerland
Field: UN agency to protect and support refugees
Biography
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country. It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and has 20,305 staff working in 136 countries as of December 2023.
Nobel Prize Details
The Nobel Peace Prize 1981
Awarded on: 1981-10-14
"for promoting the fundamental rights of refugees"