US Edition'I Know the Pain': Ex-Refugee Takes over as UNHCR Chief
- Salih has assumed leadership of the UNHCR, responding to a "profound moral and legal responsibility" amid a funding shortfall and rising refugee needs.
- Salih expressed empathy for refugees, stating, "I know the pain of losing a home, losing your friends," during his visit to Kakuma camp in Kenya.
- The Kakuma refugee camp hosts around 300,000 refugees, and Salih praised Kenya's initiative to turn camps into economic hubs as a step toward better solutions.
- UNHCR's funding has decreased significantly, prompting Salih to call for "more efficiency and accountability" from the international community.
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"Know Pain Of Losing Home": New UN Refugee Agency Chief Was Once In Exile
Barham Salih has known torture and the wrenching loss of exile. Four decades after his own ordeal, he has taken the helm of the UN refugee agency as it grapples with a funding shortfall and ever-rising needs.
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'I know the pain': ex-refugee takes over as UNHCR chief
Barham Salih has known torture and the wrenching loss of exile. Four decades after his own ordeal, he has taken the helm of the UN refugee agency as it grapples with a funding shortfall and ever-rising needs.
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‘I know the pain of losing a home,’ says new refugee agency chief
KAKUMA, Kenya (AFP): Barham Salih has known torture and the wrenching loss of exile. Four decades after his own ordeal, he has taken the helm of the UN refugee agency as it grapples with a funding shortfall and ever-rising needs.A former Iraqi president, Salih, 65, became the first former head of state to run the UN High Commission for Refugees at the start of the year.“It is a profound moral and legal responsibility,” Salih said during his firs…
Barham Saleh has experienced torture and kidnapping. Some forty years later, this former exile took the reins of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), facing a lack of funding while the number of displaced persons had doubled in ten years. (With: AFP). President of Iraq from 2018 to 2022, he is the first ex-head of state to head the UNHCR, and the first former exile at the head of the UN agency since its first …
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