News: 68th Session of EXCOM

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.

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