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In September 2013, DRC opened a new representation office in Geneva. In 2017, the Danish government donated DKK 2.5 million to the Danish Refugee Council for them to work together with IBM to develop a model that would track and possibly predict refugee and migrant flows, thereby improving humanitarian response planning. [2]
Danish Demining Group (DDG) is the Human Security Unit under the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), specialised in clearing landmines and unexploded ordnance and reducing armed violence. DDG’s mission is to recreate a safe environment where one can live without the threat of landmines, unexploded ordnance and small arms and light weapons. [ 1 ]
Caritas Denmark (Danish: Caritas Danmark) is a Danish nonprofit organisation.It is the official aid organisation of the Catholic Church in Denmark [3] and implements some social services in the country, while the core of its work are humanitarian and development programmes abroad.
In October 2011, Jessica Buchanan and Poul Hagen Thisted, who had been working on a demining project with the Danish Refugee Council, were kidnapped by Somali pirates in Galkayo. [1] Attempts by the Council to enlist local Somali elders and traditional leaders to assist in freeing the hostages were unsuccessful, and the pirates refused an offer ...
List of Danish government ministries List of presidents of the United States Term end 1800 J. Blicker Olson: Minister Resident [2] John Adams Thomas Jefferson: 1805 1805 Peder Pedersen: Minister Resident [2] Thomas Jefferson James Madison James Monroe John Quincy Adams: 1826 1826 Steen Bille: Chargé d'affaires [2] John Quincy Adams Andrew ...
The Danish Immigration Service (Danish: Udlændingestyrelsen or Udlændingeservice) is a directorate within the Danish Ministry of Refugees, Immigration and Integration Affairs. The service administrates the Danish Aliens Act ( Danish : Udlændingeloven ), in other words, it handles applications for asylum, family reunification , visas, work ...
The first Danes in New York were sailors in the crew of Henry Hudson’s ship the Halve Maen, which sailed into New York Harbor in 1609. In 1675 lived at least 100 Danes in New York. In 1704 the Danes together with the Norwegians build a small Lutheran chapel near the intersection of Broadway and Rector Street. Danish immigration reached its ...
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development nongovernmental organization. [3] Founded in 1933 as the International Relief Association, at the request of Albert Einstein, and changing its name in 1942 after amalgamating with the similar Emergency Rescue Committee, the IRC provides emergency aid and long-term assistance to refugees and those ...