Abstract
The UN is making an invaluable contribution towards mitigating the sufferings and plight of the displaced and uprooted people. In achieving this noble goal its specialized agency related to the refugee problem, UNHCR, is playing a very phenomenal role. However, because of number of reasons UN faces different problems in achieving this goal. In this paper an attempt is made to assess the role of UN and its specialized agencies, specially UNHCR, in providing humanitarian assistance to refugees by discussing different legal, political, and institutional strategies adopted by them. Before discussing these different strategies, in order to understand the question in hand, a brief history of international action for mitigating the sufferirngs of refugees[ sentence not correct]—starting with the appointment of Fridjof Nansen of Norway as the first High Commissioner for Refugees by League of Nations in 1921, is given. And in the end the problems faced by UN in provision of assistance to refugees is discussed
Muhammad Ayub. (2006) UNITED NATIONS AND THE REFUGEE PROBLEM “A refugee is a man who votes with his feet”, The Dialogue, Volume 1, Issue 3.
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