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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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A Socio-Economic Review of Japan's Resettlement Pilot Project

June 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Options Paper 2: Options for governments on open reception and alternatives to detention

2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

A Report on the Local Integration of Indo-Chinese Refugees and Displaced Persons in Japan

11 December 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Compilation of recommendations relating to statelessness made during the Second Cycle (13th - 16th sessions) of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review

11 July 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Compilations

Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report - Universal Periodic Review: Japan

April 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Excerpts of Concluding Observations and Recommendations from UN Treaty Monitoring Bodies and from reports by UN Special Procedures Mandate holders Universal Periodic Review: Japan

February 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Welcome to Japan: first Asian country joins UNHCR's resettlement programme

28 September 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Overview of Statelessness: International and Japanese Context

April 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Legal Articles/Analyses/Commentaries

Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report (Excerpts of Treaty Body Concluding Observations and Special Procedure Reports) - Universal Periodic Review: Japan

19 December 2007 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

Map of Japan Region as of January 2007

22 January 2007 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

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