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
- 1951 Refugee Convention 1
- 1969 OAU Convention 1
- Access to procedures 10
- Access to water 1
- Accession 1
- Administrative courts 1
- Adoption 1
- Africans 3
- Albinism/Persons with Albinism 4
- Arbitrary arrest and detention 2
- Armed attacks on camps 1
- Armed forces / Military 1
- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 4
- Asylum policy 32
- Asylum-migration nexus 42
- Asylum-seekers 40
- Border controls 4
- Border crossers 3
- Burakumin 1
- Burden of proof 2
- Burden-sharing and international co-operation 6
- Camp management 5
- Cancellation 1
- Capacity building of state institutions 48
- Ceasefire 1
- Changes of circumstances in home country 1
- Child soldiers 3
- Children's rights 6
- Children-at-risk 22
- Civil and political rights 1
- Civil rights legislation 1
- Civil war 4
- Civilian character of asylum 3
- Climate change (including environmental migrants) 16
- Combatants / Former combatants 2
- Communal conflict / Social conflict 3
- Community development 13
- Complementary forms of protection 14
- Conflict prevention 2
- Conflict resolution 10
- Conflict situation 10
- Convention Plus 10
- Convention refugee 1
- Country of origin information (COI) 4
- Credibility assessment 4
- Crime prevention 1
- Crimes against humanity 1
- Criminal justice 2
- Decision on admissibility 1
- Democracy 3
- Denial of nationality 1
- Denial of refugee status 1
- Deportation / Forcible return 1
- Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 1
- Drug trafficking 2
- EU Qualification Directive 7
- Economic, social and cultural rights 7
- Effective protection 10
- Effective remedy 7
- Entry / Exit 2
- Equal opportunities 3
- Equality before the law 3
- Eritreans 2
- Ethiopians 1
- Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 5
- Exclusion clauses 3
- Exiles 2
- Expulsion 1
- Extended definition 1
- Extradition 2
- Extreme poverty 4
- Family reunification 3
- Flight by land, air or sea 1
- Forced labour 1
- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 1
- Freedom of expression 1
- Freedom of information 1
- Freedom of movement 15
- Freedom of speech 1
- Gender discrimination 5
- Gender mainstreaming 1
- Gender-based persecution 2
- Genocide 1
- Gio 1
- Global Consultations on international protection 6
- Gross, systematic and large-scale 1
- Group / Prima facie determination 1
- HIV and AIDS 4
- Harmful traditional practices 3
- High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges 20
- High Commissioner's Forum 5
- Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 10
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 19
- Human rights law 4
- Humanitarian assistance 33
- IDP camps 4
- Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 3
- Immigrants 1
- Immigration Detention 4
- Immigration control after entry 2
- Immigration law 6
- Indigenous persons 1
- Integration 48
- Internal armed conflict 10
- Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 1
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 62
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1
- International armed conflict 6
- International criminal law 3
- International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 3
- International protection 31
- Involuntary repatriation 3
- Jurisdiction 1
- Kosovar 2
- Kurd 1
- Labour law 2
- Laws relating to religion 1
- Legal representation / Legal aid 9
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 3
- Livelihoods 32
- Malinke / Mandingo 2
- Mental health 2
- Migrant rights 6
- Migrants 20
- Minorities 1
- Minority rights 1
- Naturalization 3
- Non-refoulement 4
- Non-state agents of persecution 1
- Older persons 2
- Palestinian 1
- Passports 1
- Pastoralists 1
- Peace agreements 3
- Peace process 6
- Peacekeeping 5
- Persecution based on political opinion 3
- Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 2
- Persons not in need of international protection 9
- Persons of concern to UNHCR 15
- Persons with disabilities 5
- Political asylum 1
- Political situation 3
- Population transfers 2
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 1
- Pre-entry procedures 4
- Pre-trial detention 1
- Prevention of discrimination 1
- Property restitution 2
- Prosecution vs persecution 1
- Prostitution / Commercial sex work 2
- Protection of camps 5
- Protection of civilian persons in time of war 6
- Public health 5
- Racial / Ethnic persecution 1
- Readmission 1
- Reception 10
- Reconciliation 3
- Refoulement 2
- Refugee / Asylum law 27
- Refugee camps 17
- Refugee identity documents 10
- Refugee seamen 2
- Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 26
- Refugee travel documents / CTDs 1
- Refugees 175
- Regional instruments 2
- Registration 20
- Reintegration 9
- Rejected asylum-seekers 4
- Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 6
- Resettlement 75
- Residence permits / Residency 1
- Return conditions 11
- Returnees 14
- Right to a nationality 3
- Right to development 9
- Right to education 11
- Right to employment 5
- Right to family life 2
- Right to food 1
- Right to health 1