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UNHCR to get Mother Teresa Award 2017 for social justice
November 13 , 2017
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- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has been named as the recipient of the Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice, 2017 as an acknowledgement of its exceptional work worldwide.
- Harmony Foundation's 2017 theme is 'Compassion Beyond Borders' and UNHCR efforts aptly fit into this theme.
- The Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice was instituted by Harmony Foundation in 2005 in memory of Mother Teresa, who attained sainthood in September 2016.
- The UNHCR also known as the UN Refugee Agency, provides humanitarian aid to innumerable people internally displaced by conflicts and helping stateless people all over the world.
- UNHCR headquarters is in Geneva, Switzerland.
- It is a member of the United Nations Development Group.
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