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The International Refugee Organization (IRO) is an autonomous international organization collaborating with the League of Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross. Established by the Refugee Convention of 1929, it replaces the Commission for Refugees of the League of Nations. Its first Director-General was the Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen.

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  • The International Refugee Organization (IRO) is an autonomous international organization collaborating with the League of Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross. Established by the Refugee Convention of 1929, it replaces the Commission for Refugees of the League of Nations. Its first Director-General was the Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen.
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  • The International Refugee Organization (IRO) is an autonomous international organization collaborating with the League of Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross. Established by the Refugee Convention of 1929, it replaces the Commission for Refugees of the League of Nations. Its first Director-General was the Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen. Initially the Commission for Refugees was mandated to assist the persons who fled the Russian Revolution of 1918 and the subsequent civil war (1918–1920). Later expanded to include ethnic minorities fleeing the Turkish Civil War and Armenians. Another resolution of the LoN included Assyrians and Turkish refugees. In all of these cases, a refugee was defined as a person in a group for which the League of Nations had approved a resolution, as opposed to a person to whom a general definition might apply. However inadequate funding, rising numbers of refugees and the refusal by League members to let the Commission assist their own citizens or others made it inadequate and limited in its task. The general consensus inside the Commission and some governments was that a more permanent body with wider powers and resources was required to oversee global refugee issues. The immigration restrictions and quotas being establish by most countries in the 1920s also made it necessary to establish other means of repatriation. Natural disasters like the Great Kantō earthquake (1923), Great Mississippi Flood (1927) and Xining earthquake (1929) also showed the need of international cooperation in disaster relief. The Chinese civil wars, since 1916, marked the need of a more permanent actions and funding in the work of the Commission. Nansen and collaborators championed the need to establish an independent international organization sanction by an international treaty in the style of the Red Cross. Thanks to the cooperation and good offices of Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and financial pledge from the United States and Pan-American Union, it was called a conference of plenipotentiaries in Geneva for August 1929. After a month, the Conference approves the Refugee Convention and assigned to the Swiss state the role of custodian of the treaty and to call future conferences to revise it.
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