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The post of Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) was created by UN resolution 46/182 in December 1991 to coordinate the efforts of the United Nations, member states and the wider humanitarian community in response to natural and man-made emergencies.
The Palace of Nations.The United Nations Office at Geneva (Switzerland) is the second most important UN centre, after the United Nations Headquarters.. While the Secretariat of the United Nations is headquartered in New York City, its many bodies, specialized agencies, and related organizations are headquartered in other parts of the world, particularly in Europe.
The UNHCR's Mid-Year Trends report of June 2015 (based on information for mid-2015 or latest available information up to that date) reported an "unprecedented" 57,959,702 individuals falling under its mandate (for reference, on 1 January 2007, 21,018,589 people – or less than half of the number in 2015 – fell under the mandate of the UNHCR).
INSARAG, International Search and Rescue Advisory Group; ReliefWeb, a leading source of time-critical humanitarian information on global crises and disasters. ReliefWeb is a 24/7 service that provides the latest reports, maps, infographics, and videos from trusted sources, as well as jobs and training programs for humanitarians. [12] (1996)
The list is sorted by the official order in which the flags are flown in front of UN buildings. This is also the seating arrangement in the General Assembly . Permanent representatives are also appointed to the United Nations Offices in Geneva , Vienna , and Nairobi ; and permanent delegates to specialized agencies of the UN , such as FAO ...
The Répertoire opérationnel des métiers et des emplois (ROME), or, in English, the Operational Directory of Trades and Jobs, [1] [2] is a French job skillset directory. It was made in 1989 by the Agence nationale pour l'emploi, [1] which became the Pôle emploi, in France. It puts jobs into categories of skill sets. [2] It catalogs more than ...
There's a new No. 1 in the USA TODAY Sports women's basketball poll for the second consecutive week as UCLA takes the top spot for the first time.
In 1952, operations of the IRO ceased, and it was replaced by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The Constitution of the International Refugee Organization, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 15 December 1946, is the founding document of the IRO. The constitution specified the organization's ...