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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. UNHCR now has more than 16,803 personnel and work in a total of 134 countries to help 70.8 million persons.

 Website: www.unhcr.org
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Global Report 2010 - Americas

20 June 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Global Report 2010 - North American and the Caribbean

20 June 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

A bridge between two worlds: leadership among resettled Sudanese youth in an American city

June 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Power and politics in resettlement: a case study of Bhutanese refugees in the USA

May 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Grande-Mercado et al. v. Holder - Brief Amicus Curiae of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Support of Petitioners

25 March 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

In rural Pennsylvania, a model of civil immigration detention

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

Actualización de los Programas y Estrategias del ACNUR 2011: Las Américas

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

Resettlement programme for refugees in Nepal passes 40,000 mark

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

UNHCR intervention before the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in the case of Bueso-Avila v. Holder, Attorney General

9 November 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

For resettled refugees in Baltimore, many needs, one destination

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

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