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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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Refugee Protection and Mixed Migration: The 10-Point Plan in action

February 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Compilations

Regional Conference on Refugee Protection and International Migration in the Americas - Protection Considerations in the Context of Mixed Migration (San José, Costa Rica, 19-20 November 2009). Summary Report

November 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Conference Reports

Forced Migration and Development (Global Forum on Migration and Development, Brussels, 9-11 July 2007)

28 June 2007 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Legal Articles/Analyses/Commentaries

Migración forzada y desarrollo (Foro Global sobre Migración y Desarrollo, Bruselas, 9-11 de Julio, 2007

1 January 2007 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Legal Articles/Analyses/Commentaries

Refugees, forced resettlers and 'other forced migrants': towards a unitary study of forced migration

30 September 2003 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

The humanitarian hangover: transnationalization of governmental practice in Tanzania's refugee-populated areas

20 April 2001 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

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