Aftermath: institutional responses to displaced persons and refugees after 1945
TitelAftermath: institutional responses to displaced persons and refugees after 1945
Forfatter
Call number325.21/0021
Objektnummer10106e
UdgivelsesstedBerlin, Germany
UdgiverMetropol
Udgivelsesår
2018
Pagineringpp125-140
MaterialeArticle
SerieInternational Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (Ed.) series Vol 4
IHRA series, Vol.4.
IHRA series, Vol.4.
ISBN9783863313920
NoterArticle from the book 'Refugee policies from 1933 until today: challenges and responsibilities' pp125-140
Beskrivelse
Discusses the history and organization of two international organizations - UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration)
and UNWCC (United Nations War Crimes Commission). Refugee camps under UNRRA were infused with the principle of self-government offering a potent antidote to the powerlessness that had marked the lives of their inhabitants. Similarly, the UNWCC's example of an "international legal response to human rights abuses" confirms the proper role of the individual as opposed to platitudes of stateman
