Norwegian refugee aid

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The Norwegian Refugee Aid ( Norwegian Flyktninghjelpen , English Norwegian Refugee Council ) is a humanitarian aid organization for refugees. It is the largest aid organization in Norway .

history

Before and after the Second World War , various aid organizations were set up in Norway - similar to the US organization CARE . These came together in May 1946 in order to better coordinate operations and to be able to use the scarce funds more specifically. A committed advocate of an association of Norwegian aid groups was Odd Nansen (1901–1973), whose Nansenhilfe for refugees and stateless people, founded in 1936, now merged into what was then known as the Norwegian European Aid. The Norwegian department of Save the Children ( Redd Barna ) also became part of the European aid. Odd Nansen became its first leader.

The Norwegian aid Europe was in Norwegian Refugee Council (1953 Det Norske Flyktningeråd renamed) and since 2005 under the new name Norwegian Refugee Aid ( Flyktninghjelpen , Norwegian Refugee Council ) is the largest humanitarian organization in the country. It operates worldwide.

In 2018, the Norwegian NGO was targeted by NGO Monitor , according to whose research the Norwegian Refugee Aid, with the help of local groups, has been burdening Israeli courts with several hundred petitions per year since 2009, while this activity was carried out by the European Union ( ECHO ), departments of the United Nations and individuals European governments. One of the points of criticism was the lack of transparency, with donors trying to conceal their commitment to Norwegian refugee aid. On the basis of the selected local cooperation partners and the number of cases, the organization itself was accused of not appearing neutrally with its donor countries, but as actors in the Arab-Israeli conflict.

In June 2020, General Secretary Jan Egeland accused rich countries of structural racism. This explains why, in his opinion, the world is too little interested in sub-Saharan Africa and why 9 of the 10 most neglected crises are located there.

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Every year, refugee aid publishes a list of the ten most neglected refugee crises in the world. It is based on three criteria:

  • Lack of political will to change at local and international level,
  • lack of media interest in the situation,
  • lack of international support.

Activity in Germany and Austria

The German management - initially based in Freiburg im Breisgau , from 1949 in Hamburg and Munich - was transferred to the future Norwegian UN High Commissioner for Refugees Arne Torgersen (1910–1987). The tasks of the aid organization in Germany primarily included the material and infrastructural supply of needy, malnourished and sick refugee and displaced children in Germany and Austria. In addition to procuring food, these tasks also included the construction of children's and youth homes such as the Heiligenhof in Bad Kissingen . Their support also included financial aid in housing construction for refugees and displaced persons, including in Essen- Gerschede , as well as the establishment of training centers and the Ulm School of Design .

After the living conditions in Germany and Austria had improved, the auxiliary activity there was stopped again in 1953.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Flooding the Courts: The Norwegian Refugee Council's European-Funded Proxy War" ngo-monitor.org from July 2018
  2. ^ "Nine of 10 most neglected displacement crises in Africa: NRC" aljazeera.com of June 10, 2020
  3. ↑ Welt im Film 368/1952
  4. ↑ René Spitz: hfg ulm. the look behind the foreground. the political history of the college for design (1953–1968) . Stuttgart / London 2002, ISBN 3-932565-16-9 .

literature

  • Hege Roll-Hansen: Europahjelpen 1946–1953. Nestekjærlighet og realpolitikk . - German translation: The Norwegian European Aid 1946–1953. Charity and Realpolitik . In: Bernd Henningsen (Hrsg.): Hundred years of German-Norwegian encounters. Not just salmon and sausages . Book accompanying the exhibition. With the collaboration of Frauke Stuhl and Jan Hecker-Stampehl. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2005, pp. 80–82

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