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...Ogata has been involved with refugees most recently in East Timor, as well as Kosovo, Rwanda and other hotspots around the world...
Flanked by the flags of the United States and the United Nations, Sadako Ogata, United Nations high commissioner for refugees, spoke last night at the ARCO Forum, emphasizing the importance of diplomacy instead of military intervention and calling for renewed leadership in humanitarian intervention...
...cards in military intervention--and why must we wait until human suffering becomes so intolerable that we must risk disturbing the fragile web of international relations?" Ogata asked during her speech, titled "On the Humanitarian Frontline: New Challenges in Refugee Assistance...
...Ogata was appointed high commissioner in 1991 after serving as the dean of faculty of foreign studies at Tokyo's Sophia University since 1989. Her association with the United Nations when she was appointed a minister in 1976. She later served as delegate to the U.N. general assembly from Japan...
...Unlike Kosovo?s Serbs and ethnic Albanians, its Gypsies have few international advocates speaking out on their behalf. U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson and its high commissioner for refugees, Sadako Ogata, have both visited some of the thousands of Gypsy refugees crammed into makeshift facilities inside Kosovo, and vowed to provide them with support. And pan-European Gypsy organizations such as the Romany Union and the European Roma Rights Center have sought urgent undertakings from NATO to protect their kin in Kosovo. In the end, though, there may be some cynical politics in play. "The campaign against the Gypsies...