- Title: UNHR is a possible contender for the 2019 peace prize
- Date: 30th September 2019
- Summary: HODEIDAH, YEMEN (FILE - JUNE 27, 2018) (REUTERS) ELDERLY MAN CARRYING AID PACKAGES LABELLED "UNHCR" (U.N. Refugee Agency) VARIOUS OF VEILED WOMAN STANDING NEXT TO AID PACKAGES MAN WITH BLANKET OVER HIS HEAD MEN SITTING NEXT TO AID TRUCK VARIOUS OF MEN QUEUED UP NEXT TO TRUCK UNHCR BUCKETS FILLED WITH AID ITEMS CARS AND TRUCKS ON THE STREET VARIOUS OF TRUCKS BEING UNLOADED ELDERLY MAN PEOPLE CARRYING BLANKETS ON THEIR HEADS MEN QUEUED UP TO TAKE AID UNICEF CARTONS MAN PILING UP UNICEF CARTONS PEOPLE CARRYING AID PACKAGES PEOPLE TAKING AID FROM WORKERS NEXT TO TRUCK MEN TRANSPORTING AID PACKAGE AND MATTRESSES ON MOTORCYCLE PACARAIMA, RORAIMA STATE, BRAZIL (FILE - AUGUST 23, 2018) (REUTERS) GIRL AND WOMAN WALKING ALONG BRAZIL-VENEZUELAN BORDER WITH BELONGINGS WOMEN AND CHILDREN SITTING ON GROUND BAGS BELONGING TO VENEZUELAN MIGRANTS LINED UP NEAR BORDER MIGRANTS RESTING ON GROUND SIGN READING (Portuguese) "TEMPORARY REFUGE AND SHELTER" / VENEZUELAN MIGRANTS WAITING AT SHELTER MIGRANTS INCLUDING CHILDREN WAITING UNHCR WORKER WALKING WITH MIGRANT UNHCR WORKER TALKING WITH WOMAN / YOUNG GIRL SITTING NEXT TO UNHCR WORKER AND CRYING YOUNG GIRL CRYING AS HER MOTHER SPEAKS WITH UNHCR WORKER
- Embargoed: 14th October 2019 11:13
- Keywords: UNHCR Nobel Peace prize U.N. refugeee agency United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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- Topics: Society/Social Issues,Editors' Choice
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- Story Text: The U.N. refugee agency is among the possible contenders for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - or UNHCR - was set up in 1950 and has already won the Noble Peace Prize twice - in 1954 and in 1981.
With its headquarters in Geneva, the UNHCR has played a major role in aiding and protecting the rights of migrants and refugees around the globe.
The agency has been particularly active in Yemen, where they have provided aid during a severe humanitarian crisis caused by fighting between government forces and northern rebels seeking autonomy.
The UNHCR has also responded to multiple refugee crises around the world in recent years, including the influx of Rohingya Muslims into Bangladesh from neighbouring Myanmar, the movement of people from the Democratic Republic of Congo into Uganda, and people fleeing political and economic turmoil in Venezuela into Colombia and northeast Brazil.
The Nobel Peace Prize, worth 10 million Swedish crowns (1.4 million U.S. dollars), will be announced in Oslo on Friday, October 11 at 1100 a.m. (0900GMT).
As usual, the prize will be presented on the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, December 10.
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