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- Sérgio Vieira de Mello (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈsɛʁʒju viˈejɾɐ dʒi ˈmɛlu]; 15 March 1948 – 19 August 2003) was a Brazilian United Nations diplomat who worked on several UN humanitarian and political programs for over 34 years.
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Sérgio Vieira de Mello (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈsɛʁʒju viˈejɾɐ dʒi ˈmɛlu]; 15 March 1948 – 19 August 2003) was a Brazilian United Nations diplomat who worked on several UN humanitarian and political programs for over 34 years.
- UNHCR in Early Eighties
- Achievements
- Senior Political Officer, UNIFIL, DPKO, Lebanon 1981-1983
- Deputy Head of Personnel, UNHCR, Geneva, 1983-1985
- Director of Asia Bureau, UNHCR, Geneva, 1988-1990
- Director of External Affairs, UNHCR, Geneva 1990-1991
- Director of Operations and Planning, UNHCR, Geneva 1994-1996
- Special Envoy of Secretary-General to The Great Lakes Region 10-12 1996
- Assistant High Commissioner For Refugees, UNHCR, Geneva 1996-1998
- Under-Secretary-General For Humanitarian Affairs, Un, New York, USA 1998-2002
1. By the early eighties, UNHCR, under High Commissioner Poul Hartling was facing new challenges as refugee problems became highly politicized, especially with the intensification of the Cold War. The sustained mass exodus in Indochina and a large scale international response thrust the organization into a vast humanitarian operation. UNHCR set up ...
3. Back from his assignment in Peru, Sergio Vieira de Mello was appointed by the High Commissioner as Head of Career Development and Training Unit in the Personnel Section in January 1980. The challenges Sergio faced in his new job entailed assessing staff training needs through periodic surveys and developing and administering training programmes ...
• Brutal Civil war and unabated tension on Lebanese-Israeli border resulting in continuous incursions. • Occupation by Israel of all Lebanese land south of Litani River and full scale invasion. • Thousands killed and displaced. • Security Council Resolutions not respected. • Worst effects of civil war, Israeli occupation and border tension containe...
• Refugee problem became one of the major challenges facing the contemporary world • Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees stuck in camps in situations of legal limbo: “Palestinisation” • Voluntary repatriation of refugees accepted as the norm for providing durable solutions for refugee. 1. The mandate of the High Commissioner Poul Hartling ended in198...
• Intractable refugee situations in South East Asia. • Geneva International Conference on Indochinese Refugees. • Comprehensive Plan of Action (CPA) launched. 2. The intractable situation of the Vietnamese refugees (Boat People) stuck for more than ten years in several countries in South East Asia became a major concern for UNHCR. Before leaving of...
• Changing nature of displacement. • Concerted efforts to revamp and improve UNHCR’s public relations and image. • Stronger relationship with UNHCR Executive Committee. • UNHCR’s Budget and Staff more than double. • Start of large-scale Emergency Operations. 1. Sadako Ogata, then Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Studies at Sophia University, Tokyo, J...
• Several major operations including aftermath of Rwandan Genocide dominated UNHCR’s field work • Conference on Refugees and Population Movements in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) 1. The April 1994 Rwandan Genocide triggered a massive flight of populations into Zaire and the surrounding countries. Although UNHCR’s financing had starte...
• Following the genocide, thousands of Rwandan refugees fled to neighbouring countries • Separating refugees from armed elements in camps especially along the Rwanda-Zaire border became a major humanitarian issue • Congolese rebels led by Laurent Kabila and supported by Rwanda attacked Goma refugee camps forcing the inmates to flee into forest or r...
• Situation in Great Lakes Region worsens. • The Balkans operation becomes high point of High Commissioner Ogata’s tenure. 1. In the mid and late Nineties, the worsening security situation for refugees and IDPs in the Great Lakes Region, the deteriorating relationship between the countries of the region and their negative attitude to UNHCR, placed ...
• Ascended to highest position in the Humanitarian sphere. • UN Reform and Humanitarian and Development Groups. • Challenges–strengthening the Department of Humanitarian Affairs (DHA), providing strong leadership to the humanitarian community and creating conducive environment and secure respected space for humanitarian action. • Raised the humanit...
Apr 17, 2020 · A dazzled journalist once described Vieira de Mello, the Brazilian-born United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as a “cross between James Bond and Bobby Kennedy.” Vieira de...
Sergio Vieira de Mello appointed United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on 12 September 2002. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1948, Sergio Vieira de Mello joined the United Nations in 1969 while studying philosophy and humanities at the University of Paris (Panthéon-Sorbonne).
Feb 5, 2020 · On Aug. 19, 2003, a bomb exploded in Baghdad’s Canal Hotel inside the United Nations compound. The explosion injured hundreds of people and killed 23, among them Sérgio Vieira de Mello, a high-ranking U.N. official who had been poised to become the international body’s next secretary-general.
- Natasha Ishak
In his thirty-year career in the United Nations, most of which was with UNHCR, Sergio Vieira de Mello scored so much that attempting to summarize his successes would be tantamount to downplaying the brilliant and outstanding contributions of this extraordinary man to the victims of humanitarian crisis and to humanity at large.
May 5, 1998 · Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello (Brazil, 1948 – 2003) was the Special Representative of the Secretary-General to Iraq, where he was tragically killed, along with his 21 colleagues,...
