Dr Ogata said that she was delighted to be able to visit India in the final year of her tenure as High Commissioner which is also the Fiftieth Year of the formation of UNHCR. Dr Ogata recounted the changes in the refugee situation in the nine years since she has been High Commissioner. There has been a rise in conflicts and disturbances, and refugee issues have become extremely important on the international agenda. un.org.in
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Sadako Ogata. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Ogata
Sadako Ogata was born in Tokyo, Japan on 16 September 1927. From an early age she was fascinated by international issues. After completing her first degree in Tokyo she moved to America to begin what was to become a long and distinguished academic caree www.europaworld.org/issue13/sadakoogata151200.htm
When she was awarded the LI Prize for Freedom in 1994, Sadako Ogata was UN High Commissioner for Refugees. She took this office in 1991 and has been re-elected twice since then, in 1994 and 1997. She counts as one of the greatest activists for refugees, www.liberal-international.org/editorial.asp?ia_id=702
