UNHCR ExCom documents on protection

We would like to draw your attention to the following documents, which were released and posted on
UNHCR's Refworld website in relation to the 59th (2008) session of UNHCR's Executive Committee (ExCom):

Statement by Ms. Erika Feller, Assistant High Commissioner -
Protection, at the fifty-ninth session of the Executive Committee of the
High Commissioner's Programme: "Protection makes a difference. It can
mean the difference"
8 October 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/48ecd5f62.html

Note on International Protection
A/AC.96/1053, 30 June 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/486902122.html

Preliminary Summary Report on Feedback by States on Their
Implementation of the Agenda for Protection
1 October 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/48ecd0702.html

More information on ExCom is available on the general UNHCR website at:
http://www.unhcr.org/excom. Other documentation of the 59th (2008)
session, besides the above-mentioned ones, is available at
http://www.unhcr.org/excom/486c900d2.html. The documents are also
available in French at http://www.unhcr.fr/excom.

In addition, we would like to highlight the following report, which was
presented at ExCom:

Refugee Realities: Meeting the needs of refugees and other people of
concern globally
October 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/48ef42352.html

This is the pilot report for the annual Global Needs Assessment (GNA )
that UNHCR is launching in 2009, of its operations worldwide aimed at
comprehensively mapping the real state of the world's refugees and
people of concern under its mandate. The pilot GNA used a methodology
drawn from UNHCR's Strengthening Protection Capacity Project
(http://www.unhcr.org/spcp). More information is available on UNHCR's
website at http://www.unhcr.org/gna.

We hope to have informed you. Previous alerts are available at
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/alerts.html.
Web: http://www.refworld.org

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