Profiles of The First Two High Commissioners

• Published in: Journal of Refugee Studies
• Main Author: SKRAN, CLAUDENA M.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1988
• Subjects: Articles; Fridtjof; Fridtjof Nansen
• Online Access: http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/1/3-4/277; https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/1.3-4.277

Refugees are not new to the twentieth century. International refugee assistance programmes, however, have only been in existence since 1921. In that year, the League of Nations responded to an appeal from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to assist the more than one million Russian...