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Panelists discussed the possibilities for sustainable growth in Africa. They discussed whether donor countries are meeting their unprecedented commitments for aid and debt relief and what Af…

Mrs. Ogata talked about her book The Turbulent Decade: Confronting the Refugee Crises of the 1990s, published by W. W. Norton and Company. In the book she recounted her experiences and the …

Ambassador Ogata is the Japanese Special Representative for Afghan Assistance.

Cabinet officials and Ambassador Ogata spoke briefly for the benefit of the media prior to a closed conference on the future reconstruction of Afghanistan. The conference will focus on immed…

Sadako Ogata talked about the refugee crises around the world, and her agency, which cares for more than 20 million refugees in Africa, Kosovo and other regions. She also replied to viewer c…

NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana and UN High Commissioner For refugees Sadako Odgata talked to reporters about the United Nations effort to assist the Kosovo refugees. The focused on the…

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata, talked about human rights abuses all over the world and what the United Nations and the United States could do to alleviate the p…

While in Washington for meetings with U.S. foreign policy leaders on the situation in Zaire, High Commissioner Sadako Ogata spoke about refugee security in Rwanda and Zaire and Bosnia. She s…

High Commissioner for Refugees of the United Nations Sadako Ogata talked about the issue of caring for the 27 million refugees worldwide. She described examples of successful repatriation, s…

Sadako Ogata delivered the inaugural lecture to an audience at the Sylvia Ostry Foundation on international organizations' policies concerning human rights. She discussed the current status …