high commissioner
Commonwealth diplomatic envoy
A high commissioner is a senior diplomat who represents one Commonwealth country in another, serving the same function as an ambassador but between nations that share the British monarch as head of state.
The title also applies to the chief administrator of a trust territory or protectorate, or to the head of an international commission.
The British High Commissioner to Australia presented her credentials.
In some contexts, high commissioner designates a senior official overseeing refugees or human rights for an international body like the United Nations.
Official foreign representative
- diplomatic missionState envoy group abroad
- accreditationOfficial quality approval
- credentialsEvidence of qualification or identity
- bilateralInvolving two parties
reciprocal · foreign ministry · Ottawa · Canberra · London · New Delhi · Pretoria · Nairobi
UN body aiding refugees
- United NationsInternational governmental organization
- asylumShelter from persecution
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- repatriationFormal return to homeland
resettlement · stateless · protection · humanitarian · refugee camp · persecution · Geneva Convention
Formal authoritative directive
- jurisdictionLegal authority's scope
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
- governanceHow authority is exercised
sovereign · executive · delegation · portfolio · appointment · tenure · protocol · official residence
International governmental organization
- monitoringOngoing observation of something
- advocacyPleading for a cause
- investigationFormal examination of facts
- violationsBreaches of rules
ambassador
Official foreign representative
- diplomatic missionState envoy group abroad
- accreditationOfficial quality approval
- credentialsEvidence of qualification or identity
bilateral · reciprocal · foreign ministry · Ottawa · Canberra · London · New Delhi · Pretoria · Nairobi · Wellington
UNHCR
UN body aiding refugees
- United NationsInternational governmental organization
- asylumShelter from persecution
- displacementRemoval from usual location
repatriation · resettlement · stateless · protection · humanitarian · refugee camp · persecution · Geneva Convention
mandate
Formal authoritative directive
- jurisdictionLegal authority's scope
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
governance · sovereign · executive · delegation · portfolio · appointment · tenure · protocol · official residence · diplomatic immunity
United Nations
International governmental organization
- monitoringOngoing observation of something
- advocacyPleading for a cause
- investigationFormal examination of facts
- governorsstate governor, viceroy, governor's office, lieutenant governor, proconsul
- officialsofficial, officials, bailiff, bureaucrat, congressman
- colonialismcolony, colonization, colonial rule, colonial powers, colonizer
- diplomacyembassy, ambassador, ambassadors, treaty, treaties
- colonial officialsviceroy, governor-general, colonial administrator, colonial governor, resident
- colonial rulersgovernor general, viceroy, royal governor, lieutenant governor, deputy governor
high commissionervice-consul
Consul's assistant abroad
clerk · attaché · delegate · aide · first secretary
high commissionerambassador
Official foreign representative
consul · consul general · envoy · legate · nuncio
commission, commissioner, commissioned, commissions, commissioners, commissioning, decommission, decommissioning, recommission