The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees,forcibly displaced communities,and stateless people,and to assist in their voluntary repatriation,local integration or resettlement to a third country. It is headquartered in Geneva,Switzerland,with over 18,879 staff working in 138 countries.
A refugee,conventionally speaking,is a person who has lost the protection of their country of origin and who cannot or is unwilling to return there due to well-founded fear of persecution. Such a person may be called an asylum seeker until granted refugee status by the contracting state or the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) if they formally make a claim for asylum.
Sir Edward Richard George Heath,commonly known as Ted Heath,was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. Heath also served for 51 years as a Member of Parliament from 1950 to 2001. Outside politics,Heath was a yachtsman,a musician,and an author.
William Stephen Ian Whitelaw,1st Viscount Whitelaw,was a British Conservative Party politician who served in a wide number of Cabinet positions,most notably as Home Secretary from 1979 to 1983 and as de facto Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1988. He was Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1991.
James Michael Leathes Prior,Baron Prior,was a British Conservative Party politician. A Member of Parliament from 1959 to 1987,he represented the Suffolk constituency of Lowestoft until 1983 and then the renamed constituency of Waveney from 1983 to 1987,when he stood down from the House of Commons and was made a life peer. He served in two Conservative cabinets,and outside parliament was Chairman of the Arab British Chamber of Commerce from 1996 to 2004.
Ronald Timothy Renton,Baron Renton of Mount Harry,was a British Conservative Party politician.
Sir Christopher John Chataway was a British middle- and long-distance runner,television news broadcaster,and Conservative politician.
George Edward Peter Thorneycroft,Baron Thorneycroft,was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1957 and 1958.
Henry Paul Guinness Channon,Baron Kelvedon,was Conservative MP for Southend West for 38 years,from 1959 until 1997. He served in various ministerial offices,and was a Cabinet minister for 3½years,as President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry from January 1986 to June 1987,and then as Secretary of State for Transport to July 1989.
Sir William Robert Ferdinand Mount,3rd Baronet,FRSL,is a British writer,novelist,and columnist for The Sunday Times,as well as a political commentator.
Sir Peter Maudslay Hordern,DL,PC is a British Conservative Party politician.
John Benedict Eden,Baron Eden of Winton,,known as Sir John Eden,9th Baronet,from 1963 to 1983,was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Bournemouth West from 1954 to 1983.
Edmund Jeremy James Walker,known professionally as Jeremy Kemp,was an English actor. He was known for his significant roles in the miniseries The Winds of War and War and Remembrance,the film The Blue Max,and the TV series Z-Cars.
Sir John Julius Wells CBE was a British Conservative politician.
Events from the year 1903 in the United Kingdom.
Sir John Aubrey,6th Baronet was a British Tory politician. In 1786,he succeeded to his father's baronetcy.
Margaret Thatcher became the first female Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition after winning the 1975 leadership election,the first Conservative leadership election where the post was not vacant. A rule change to enable the election was largely prompted by dissatisfaction with the incumbent leader,Edward Heath,who had lost three of four general elections as leader,including two in 1974. After announcing her first Shadow Cabinet in February 1975,she reshuffled it twice:in January and November 1976. Minor subsequent changes were necessary to respond to various circumstances. Thatcher's Shadow Cabinet ceased to exist upon her becoming Prime Minister following the 1979 general election.
Jane Philpott is a physician,academic administrator,and former Canadian politician who represented the riding of Markham—Stouffville in the House of Commons. Philpott was first elected in the 2015 federal election as a member of the Liberal Party and was appointed to the Cabinet of the 29th Canadian Ministry,headed by Justin Trudeau,on November 4,2015. On March 4,2019,Philpott resigned from her cabinet position as President of the Treasury Board over the SNC-Lavalin affair. On April 2,2019,she and Jody Wilson-Raybould were both expelled from the Liberal caucus in the aftermath of the controversy.
Thomas William Goff was an Irish Conservative politician.
