All week we look at the United Nations’ vital agencies. Let us know what you judge are the biggest successes and most glaring failures,using the form belowIn the current furore over migration into Europe, it’s an often forgotten irony that the UN refugee agency, or the United Nations high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR),was founded to encourage displaced Europeans. At the terminate of the 1940s millions of people were still trying to find their way home, or find a unusual home in Europe. The UNHCR’s groundbreaking work in Europe won it a Nobel peaceprize in 1954.
Since then it has helped millions of people.
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Source: theguardian.com