UNHCR chief Guterres joins launch of new projects at Clinton meet
News Stories, 24 September 2010
NEW YORK, United States, September 24 (UNHCR) – UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres has this week helped to formally launch technology-based projects that will improve the lives of refugees around the world.
The new initiatives, involving the provision of mobile phones and clean-burning stoves to the forcibly displaced, were officially launched this week at the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in New York.
Guterres also welcomed a new CGI pilot programme to help thousands of forcibly displaced people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). "Rethink Refugees" was announced on Thursday by former United States President Bill Clinton.