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Sadako Ogata, Japanese academic and diplomat, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (died 2019)

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Sadako Ogata

Japanese diplomat (1927–2019)

Sadako Ogata, née Nakamura , was a Japanese academic, diplomat, author, administrator, and professor emerita at the Roman Catholic Sophia University. She was widely known as the head of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from 1991 to 2000, as…
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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

UN agency to protect and support refugees

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a…
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