{"id":7460,"date":"2016-03-14T10:57:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T14:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/?p=7460"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:47:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:47:01","slug":"unhcr-and-changing-responses-to-the-global-refugee-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/2016\/unhcr-and-changing-responses-to-the-global-refugee-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Geiger to participate in special seminar with UN High Commissioner for Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Prof. Geiger to participate in special seminar with UN High Commissioner for Refugees\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Please join us on <strong>Tuesday, March 22, 2016<\/strong>, for&nbsp;for a special session with&nbsp;<strong>Filippo Grandi<\/strong>, the&nbsp;United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The event will take place in the <strong>River Building conference rooms (2nd floor)<\/strong>, from <strong>3:00pm-5:30pm<\/strong>. Please note that&nbsp;<strong>registration is required<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UNHCR works in 126 countries providing protection and assistance to nearly 60 million refugees, returnees, internally displaced people and stateless persons.&nbsp;Grandi has been engaged in international cooperation for over 30 years, focusing on refugee and humanitarian work. He previously served as Commissioner-General of the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, from 2010 to 2014, after having been the organization\u2019s Deputy Commissioner-General since 2005. Prior to that, Grandi served as Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Afghanistan, following a long career first with NGOs and later with UNHCR in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and at the organization\u2019s Geneva headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grandi will be presenting a keynote address \u201cUNHCR and Changing Responses to the Global Refugee Crisis\u201d. Following the keynote a panel will continue the discussion on one of the most important topics in the world today. The panel features:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/commonlaw.uottawa.ca\/en\/people\/bond-jennifer\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Bond (Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/people\/geiger-martin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Geiger (Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and Department of Political Science)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/people\/milner\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Milner (Department of Political Science)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A reception will follow in the Atrium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For more details and registration<\/strong>, go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpa\/event\/unhcr-and-changing-responses-to-the-global-refugee-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpa\/event\/unhcr-and-changing-responses-to-the-global-refugee-crisis\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us on Tuesday, March 22, 2016, for&nbsp;for a special session with&nbsp;Filippo Grandi, the&nbsp;United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The event will take place in the River Building conference rooms (2nd floor), from 3:00pm-5:30pm. Please note that&nbsp;registration is required. The UNHCR works in 126 countries providing protection and assistance to nearly 60 million refugees, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7469,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7460\/revisions\/7469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}