The 68th session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme (EXCOM) opened today and will run through 6 October 2017. Here is the preliminary schedule, the provisional agenda, as well as the High Commissioner's opening statement (see also related press release).This year's meeting includes the following side events:
- In the footsteps of a refugee – protection and innovative cash technologies
- South Sudan: Striving to meet the needs of displaced populations
- Briefing on the Myanmar refugee emergency response in Bangladesh
- Challenges and responses along the central Mediterranean route
- Addressing disaster displacement and climate change: Opportunities in partnership
- A new partnership at work: UNHCR and the World Bank Group
- Refugee emergencies: Are we ready to respond?
- Rethinking the refugee response in Kenya
- 1967 Protocol at fifty: Protection and solutions in a new era?
Finally, the Nansen Refugee Award ceremony will be held the evening of the first day, with the honors going to Mr. Zannah Mustapha, a lawyer, school-founder and peace-maker from north east Nigeria.
Plenary session documents can be accessed here.
Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities.
Plenary session documents can be accessed here.
Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities.
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