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\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The 73rd session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner\u2019s Program, which took place in Geneva, Switzerland from 10 to 14th October 2022, was attended by representatives from more than 150 countries.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>\u2022 First strategic objective: to ensure respect for the right to seek and enjoy international protection, for it remains at the core of our mandate at the UN Refugee Agency;<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 Second strategic objective: to strengthen accountability to the people we serve, especially women and children<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 Third strategic objective: to reinforce efforts to strengthen gender-based violence prevention, risk mitigation and responses, and we know that, in conflict, women are disproportionately exposed to deep-rooted discrimination, and are highly vulnerable to gender-based violence, to sexual violence and trafficking.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 Fourth strategic objective: resettlement places and complementary pathways to protection, access to livelihoods and employment through labour mobility programmes for refugees.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 Fifth strategic objective: to mainstream UNHCR\u2019s work with development partners, including from the start of a protection crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 Sixth strategic objective: protection and solutions for those people who have been internally displaced.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 Seventh strategic objective: to redouble efforts on statelessness, and we are all delighted that so many of you have mentioned statelessness in your opening remarks.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 Eighth strategic objective: to mitigate the impacts of the climate change.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Watch the entire High Commissioner\u2019s statement:<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”1px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IF_5qHFHQNE” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_video][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n On Friday the 14th of October 2022, after 4 days of general debate and side meetings, the assembly voted on the budget and other matters and appointed the new bureau of the 74th 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Among which the representative of the Republic of Seychelles, Jean Pierre Latour, on the right side of the photo, with Filippo Grandi, the 11th United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.<\/span><\/p>\n
Filippo Grandi was first elected by the UN General Assembly on 1 January 2016 for a five-year term. The last General Assembly of the United Nations has extended his term until 31 December 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n
The 73rd Session of ExCom was opened by High Commissioner\u2019s statement, in which he has identified eight strategic objectives for targeted action over the next 4 years:
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