• Also packed was the High Commissioner of India's reception for the Conservative Parliamentary Friends of India.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Politics | Conservative conference diary

  • Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, won a strong majority as the speaker of the lower house.

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  • The Vienna Declaration on Human Rights, for example, paved the way for the creation of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

    UN: Secretary-General

  • Kenyatta's party also asked the high commissioner, Christian Turner, to explain what it called "the sudden upsurge of British military personnel" in Kenya.

    NPR: Kenya: Ballot Count Begins; Charge Levied At UK

  • The High Commissioner for Grenada, Ruth Rouse, told me that her country also celebrates St David's Day (and several other saints' days by the sound of it).

    BBC: St David's Day: what might have been for Danny Boyle

  • The plane later continued onto Manchester from Stansted after all the passengers and cargo were screened, a process that took about four hours, according to the high commissioner's office.

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  • The event is co-hosted by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • Among Mr Berlusconi's first acts in government were closing the office of the high commissioner against corruption and passing a law that means he himself will not have to answer to bribery charges.

    ECONOMIST: Italy

  • Angelina Jolie is renowned as an Academy Award winning actress, a UN Goodwill Ambassador, and, as of April 2012, a special envoy to the High Commissioner of the UNHCR, the UN's special agency for refugees, a growing global crisis.

    FORBES: Angelina Jolie

  • The implementation of this Strategy on The Safety of Journalists and The Issue of Impunity will be coordinated by UNESCO in close cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR).

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • The grassroots Internet forum On the Frontlines of Climate Change was launched by UNESCO in response to this outcry, in partnership with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD), the Secretariat of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issue (SPFII) and the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR).

    UNESCO: On the frontlines of climate change: Sami reindeer herders

  • I'm contacting the BBC having exhausted all other avenues: I've written to the deputy British high commission in Karachi, to the British high commissioner in Islamabad, to the visa processing centre in Abu Dhabi, to customer services at the UK Border Agency and finally to Mr David Miliband himself at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

    BBC: Visa delays put lives on hold in Pakistan

  • The statement from Kenyatta's coalition on Wednesday implied that the British high commissioner pressured the commission to make the decision on the spoiled ballots, thus ensuring a runoff.

    NPR: Kenya: Ballot Count Begins; Charge Levied At UK

  • Earlier on Wednesday, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said the number of Syrian refugees who had fled the conflict reached a million.

    BBC: Syria rebels detain UN Golan observers

  • My next time in the corner (yes, there are some comfortable chairs nearby), I talked with Antonio Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the former prime minister of Portugal.

    FORBES: Bono, Peres, Guterres: People On The Move

  • The UN High Commissioner, who failed to persuade the Taleban to agree to a temporary ceasefire, said fighting was the very reason Afghan refugees received less funding than those in other areas.

    BBC: No deal on Afghan refugees

  • Officials of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees also say quietly that the returns from Egypt, insofar as they were prompted by near-destitution, risk violating one of the key principles of refugee law: the idea that people should not be sent back to their home country against their will.

    ECONOMIST: Repatriating refugees

  • The British high commissioner, Christian Turner, told Kenyan media that the UK would "remain impartial" but warned that the new government "must be ready to cooperate with ICC".

    BBC: Q&A: Kenya��s 2013 elections

  • On Wednesday, the British High Commissioner in Pakistan, Adam Thomson, told a news conference that the UK took allegations of inciting hatred very seriously.

    BBC: Pakistan MQM's Altaf Hussain attracts UK police interest

  • The Canadian High Commissioner in Colombo, Ruth Archibald, says some Sri Lankans automatically take the illegal route without realising that they might be legally eligible to go to Canada.

    BBC: Sri Lanka's human smuggling rings

  • It has refused to let the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights set up an office in Sri Lanka.

    ECONOMIST: Sri Lanka

  • "The Jubilee coalition is deeply concerned about the shadowy, suspicious and rather animated involvement of the British High Commissioner in Kenya's election, " said Charity Ngilu, a senior member of Mr Kenyatta's coalition.

    BBC: Kenya elections: Kenyatta accuses UK over rejected votes

  • The Lord High Commissioner went on to say that in last year's census, 65% of respondents had described themselves as Christian, with 42% claiming to belong to the Church of Scotland and 16% to be Roman Catholics.

    BBC: Kirk appoints new moderator

  • Also in Hong Kong, South China Morning Post reports a "shock move" by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to cut financial aid from June to some 132 recognised refugees living in Hong Kong.

    BBC: China media: Egypt accident anger

  • The government talks of involving the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the first time, although it is not clear in what capacity.

    ECONOMIST: The Karen

  • One Cornwall Terrace was the official London residence of the New Zealand High Commissioner from 1955 through the early 1970s, hosting posh parties attended by royalty and other VIPs.

    FORBES: U.K.'s Most Expensive Terraced House Fetches $120 Million From Property Mogul

  • About 260, 000 people have been living in 21 refugee camps in neighboring Mardan, Swabi, Nowshera, Peshawar and Charssada districts, but the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees say the "vast majority" of internally displaced Pakistanis have been staying with host families, rented houses or in schools.

    CNN: Despair, devastation in war-ravaged Swat Valley

  • The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says that by the end of 2007, an estimated 1 million Somalis were displaced from their homes inside the country, and thousands more were fleeing to neighboring countries.

    CNN: 250,000 Somalis flee dangers of capital for sprawling camp

  • In 1959 Sadruddin became an assistant to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and applied to the job the code of morality and responsibility of his faith.

    ECONOMIST: Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

  • Jolie serves as a special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and has visited refugee camps around the world.

    CNN: Angelina Jolie undergoes double mastectomy

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