Danish Refugee Council
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Danish Refugee Council is a private Danish
humanitarian organisation, founded in 1956. It serves as an umbrella organization for 33 member organizations.
Formed after the Second World War, and in response to the European refugee crises caused by the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. DRC has been active in large scale humanitarian projects around the world. Through convoy operations DRC was responsible for delivering half of the international humanitarian aid in Bosnia and Herzegovina
during the wars of independence in the former Yugoslavia
during the 1990s.
Today the Danish Refugee Council works in more than 30 countries around the world. With humanitarian programmes in conflictzones such as Somalia in the Horn of Africa, Afghanistan in Central Asia, Iraq in the Middle East and Chechnya in the Caucasus.
The international DRC activities aims to protect refugees and internally displaced persons and to promote long term solutions. DRC assistance in acute refugee crises, remains focused on long-term effects.
The Danish Refugee Council is currently implementing activities within nine sectors, namely: Housing and small-scale infrastructure, Income generation through grant and micro-finance, Food security & agricultural rehabilitation and development, Displacement-related law and information, Social rehabilitation, NGO networking and capacity development, Humanitarian mine action, Information management and coordination and Emergency logistics and transport management.
DRC is also active in the fields of demining and logistics and reconstruction work for various international agencies such as the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR).
DRC secretary general Andreas Kamm is also chairman of the organisation of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE)
.
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
humanitarian organisation, founded in 1956. It serves as an umbrella organization for 33 member organizations.
Formed after the Second World War, and in response to the European refugee crises caused by the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. DRC has been active in large scale humanitarian projects around the world. Through convoy operations DRC was responsible for delivering half of the international humanitarian aid in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...
during the wars of independence in the former Yugoslavia
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from the abolition of the Yugoslav monarchy until it was dissolved in 1992 amid the Yugoslav Wars. It was a socialist state and a federation made up of six socialist republics: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,...
during the 1990s.
Today the Danish Refugee Council works in more than 30 countries around the world. With humanitarian programmes in conflictzones such as Somalia in the Horn of Africa, Afghanistan in Central Asia, Iraq in the Middle East and Chechnya in the Caucasus.
The international DRC activities aims to protect refugees and internally displaced persons and to promote long term solutions. DRC assistance in acute refugee crises, remains focused on long-term effects.
The Danish Refugee Council is currently implementing activities within nine sectors, namely: Housing and small-scale infrastructure, Income generation through grant and micro-finance, Food security & agricultural rehabilitation and development, Displacement-related law and information, Social rehabilitation, NGO networking and capacity development, Humanitarian mine action, Information management and coordination and Emergency logistics and transport management.
DRC is also active in the fields of demining and logistics and reconstruction work for various international agencies such as the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , also known as The UN Refugee Agency is a United Nations agency mandated to protect and support refugees at the request of a government or the UN itself and assists in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to...
(UNHCR).
DRC secretary general Andreas Kamm is also chairman of the organisation of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE)
European Council on Refugees and Exiles
The European Council on Refugees and Exiles is a pan-European network of refugee-assisting non-governmental organisations that promotes a humane and generous European asylum policy...
.
External links
- Dansk Flygtningehjælp (in Danish)
- Danish Refugee Council (in English)
- Danish Demining Group (in English)