Aftermath: institutional responses to displaced persons and refugees after 1945
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Aftermath: institutional responses to displaced persons and refugees after 1945
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number325.21/0021
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]10106e
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Berlin, Germany
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Metropol
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2018
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp125-140
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]Series title[nb-NO]International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (Ed.) series Vol 4
IHRA series, Vol.4.
IHRA series, Vol.4.
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]9783863313920
NotesArticle from the book 'Refugee policies from 1933 until today: challenges and responsibilities' pp125-140
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
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