Talk:United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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[edit] Year
Isn't the year wrong.
1982 should be 1981 ?
- looks like it, according to Nobel Peace Prize and 1981. fixed.
[edit] 1951 definition of a refugee
The legal definition of a refugee under the 1951 convention explicitly refers to refugees as being moved from their country of origin therefore it's impossible that internally displaced persons could meet the criteria of a refugee under the 1951 convention as the article says. The African definition in contrast does allow for internally displaced persons.
[edit] Requested move
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees → UNHCR – Rationale: No one ever says 'United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' when talking of this - they always say 'UNHCR'. Hence since the concept is "almost exclusively known only by its acronyms and is widely known and used in that form", WP:NCA says that the article should be at the abbreviation name as with NASA, CERN, SETI etc. … SteveRwanda 12:38, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Survey
- Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~
- Support For reasons above. — SteveRwanda 12:40, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose for now, I hear the full term often enough on the news, not just UNHCR. besides take a look at the other UN organisations, almost 99% of all the ones listed on Wikipedia have the full name (except special missions, which are normally known under their abbrv.) Gryffindor 12:56, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose, as per Gryffindor--Aldux 17:22, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Vandalism
There some more of that weird perma-vandalism (a la Sigmund Freud) running around on this page. Someone care to deal with this? 128.153.205.165 14:39, 26 March 2007 (UTC)