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UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly. The agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally or to resettle in a third country. In more than five decades, the agency has helped an estimated 50 million people restart their lives. Today, a staff of around 7,092 people in 124 countries continues to help 35.8 million persons.  Website: www.unhcr.org
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Los derechos humanos y la protección de los refugiados. Módulo auto formativo 5, Volumen II

15 December 2006 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Training Manuals

UNHCR Manual on Refugee Protection and the European Convention on Human Rights (April 2003, Updated August 2006)

August 2006 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

Forced displacement in Africa: Dimensions, difficulties and policy directions

10 July 2006 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

UNHCR's Contribution to the First Session of the Human Rights Council, Delivered by Erika Feller, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection

21 June 2006 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Speeches/Statements

Rights of Refugees in the Context of Integration: Legal Standards and Recommendations

June 2006 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Complementary protection and beyond: How states deal with human rights protection

1 August 2005 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Extending the limits or narrowing the scope? Deconstructing the OAU refugee definition thirty years on

April 2005 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Fleeing violence and poverty: non-refoulement obligations under the European Convention of Human Rights,

1 January 2005 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Human Rights and Human Trafficking

December 2004 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Legal Articles/Analyses/Commentaries

Implementing international human rights law on behalf of asylum-seekers and refugees: the record of the Nordic countries

1 November 2004 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

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