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...from fewer than 10 in the whole of last year. Beijing's nightmare is that millions could start pouring across the border. As a result, Chinese police relentlessly hunt down North Koreans to send them back; they recently began house-to-house searches along the border. If the UNHCR office is suddenly seen as a haven, so much the worse for Beijing...
...businessman who aided the Jangs, 48-year-old Moon, comes across as the hero of the affair. The former textile salesman has worked with refugees in China for five years, and has helped the Jangs since they first crossed the border. He met several times with UNHCR officials who urged him to take the family to Mongolia, he says, but he deemed the trip too dangerous after he heard reports of refugees getting arrested on that route. So instead of a quiet escape, he arranged for the family to take a 24-hour bus trip to the capital. (They went...
...prominent families helped prepare her for the peripatetic life she now leads. Her father is an international judge, and the family lived in Sweden, France, Italy and Morocco. She practiced law for 16 years, serving as an associate judge in Sweden and later as a legal officer with the UNHCR in Geneva, but in recent years has focused on art. "To start painting was not an easy choice," she says, "but it was a privilege to immerse myself in something that I loved." The depth of her feelings for Kofi - the marriage is a second one for both - is unmistakable...
...UNHCR Kosovo operation, which is spending $10 million a week resettling refugees in devastated villages, is only two weeks away from bankruptcy ?- only about one third of its $400 million budget has been handed over. "If you can?t reintegrate people into a viable economy and society, then you?re bound to have another explosion in the region," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Dealing with that explosion will prove a lot more expensive than the development aid necessary to rebuild the region." The U.N. may have been left on the sidelines when NATO went...
...another outfit. Thus there are four U.N. agencies concerned with food production and seven with industrial development in the Third World. Emergency situations sharply highlight the resulting problems of duplication and overlap. Consider a not-very-hypothetical situation: a sudden flood of refugees. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) might build camps to house them. But WHO would want something to say about their health problems. One or more of the food agencies might consider feeding them to be its job. And since some of the refugees would surely be children, UNICEF might also get into...