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Prisons of the Stateless: The Derelictions of the UN High Commission for Refugees and the Japanese Role

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Jacob Stevens
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[Japan's payments towards the UN budget, at more than 19 per cent, are second only to the US. Although all its efforts thus far to secure a permanent seat on the Security Council have been in vain, many Japanese citizens serve, some at high levels, on UN bodies. None has been more prominent than Sadako Ogata, Head of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees through the decade of the 1990s.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , February 2007 , e18
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Notes

[1] Rosemary Righter, Utopia Lost: The United Nations and World Order, New York 1995, pp. 43–63, 294–8.

[2] Sadako Ogata, The Turbulent Decade: Confronting the Refugee Crises of the 1990s, New York 2005.

[3] Turbulent Decade, pp. 28, 34, 37–8.

[4] Turbulent Decade, pp. 66–8, 74, 90.

[5] McNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, 24 May 1993; Turbulent Decade, pp. 94–5.

[6] Turbulent Decade, pp. 143, 148, 160.

[7] Paul Nugent, Africa Since Independence, Basingstoke 2005, p. 459.

[8] Turbulent Decade, p. 188.

[9] Turbulent Decade, p. 225.

[10] Gérard Prunier, The Rwanda Crisis, London 1998, pp. 379–86.

[11] Turbulent Decade, p. 249; Barbara Harrell-Bond, ‘Along the Way Home’, Times Literary Supplement, 5 May 2005.

[12] Turbulent Decade, p. 255.

[13] Turbulent Decade, p. 276.

[14] Peter Gowan, ‘US : UN’, NLR 24, Nov–Dec 2003.

[15] Richard Holbrooke, To End a War, New York 1999, p. 103. See also James Traub, The Best Intentions, New York and London 2006.

[16] UN document 51/942, New York 1997.

[17] Imposing Aid, Oxford 1986 and Rights in Exile, New York 2005.

[18] Rights in Exile, p. 17.

[19] The counts are often carried out in a degrading manner: moved from one enclosed space to another during the course of several days, refugees are marked with indelible ink, supposedly to prevent double-counting. Rights in Exile, pp. 140–1.