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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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Overview of UNHCR's operations in Asia and the Pacific

23 September 2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Regional Reports

Good Practices Paper - Action 1: Resolving Existing Major Situations of Statelessness

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

Update on UNHCR's operations in Asia and the Pacific

17 September 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Regional Reports

The Statelessness Round Table in Central Asia : Opening Remarks by UNHCR

4 October 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Speeches/Statements

Roundtable on Statelessness Determination Procedures and Law Reform in Central Asia : Summary Conclusions

3 October 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Conference 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

UNHCR chief welcomes regional commitments in Central Asia to protect migrant and asylum-seeker rights

5 June 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

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

September 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Compilations

Statelessness: More than 3,000 stateless people given Turkmen nationality

7 December 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Statelessness in Central Asia

May 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Regional Reports

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