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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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Update on UNHCR's operations in the Americas

23 September 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Regional Reports

ACNUR Informe Mundial 2012, América del Norte y el Caribe

June 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Annual Reports

Actualización de los Programas y Estrategias del ACNUR 2013: Las Américas

2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Regional Reports

Global Report 2011 - Americas

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

Programas y Estrategias del ACNUR 2012-2013 - Las Américas

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

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

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

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

Programas y Estrategias del ACNUR 2010-2011: Las Américas

2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Regional Reports

UNHCR intervention before the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Elias Zacarias

14 August 1991 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

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