Sadako Ogata, ex-U.N. high commissioner for refugees, dies at 92

Sadako Ogata, a respected Japanese public administrator who worked to protect people displaced by conflicts as U.N. high commissioner for refugees, has died, her family said Tuesday. She was 92.As the first woman and Japanese national to assume the U.N. post in 1991, Ogata led efforts to help refugees and internally displaced people around the world including Kurdish refugees from Iraq after the Gulf War.She also tackled the refugee crises in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in the 1990s, making numerous visits to conflict zones during her tenure through 2000."Mrs. Ogata was a visionary lea…READ FULL ARTICLE