The Nansen passport: the innovative response to the refugee crisis that followed the Russian Revolution Russian refugees in Europe after the evacuation of Odessa, Ukraine, in 1919. Wikimedia Commmons ...

Find out more in the page of the Global Refugee Forum multi-stakeholder pledge on “Refugee Travel Documents – the 21 st Century Nansen passport”. History of travel documents and the “Nansen passport” ...

The new international identification documents (successors to the Nansen passports of post World War I) would soon go to hundreds of thousands of refugees on the Continent. Refugees who had by ...

He established the first legal instrument to bestow international protection to refugees. This document came to be known as the “Nansen passport”. As the first High Commissioner for Refugees, Nansen ...