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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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Report on UNHCR's Annual Consultations With Non-Governmental Organizations (3 July - 5 July 2012, Geneva, Switzerland)

17 August 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Conference Reports

Filling the protection gap: current trends in complementary protection in Canada, Mexico and Australia.

31 May 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Mapping Statelessness in The United Kingdom

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

The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol

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

Indications of progress? Assessing the use of indicators in UNHCR operations

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

Note on international protection : report of the High Commissioner

28 June 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Notes on International Protection

Note on international protection : Addendum, Note on statelessness

28 June 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Notes on International Protection

Return of Persons Found not to be in Need of International Protection

June 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Compilations

Sub-Saharan Africans fleeing Libya report serious intimidation, violence

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

Refugee Protection and Mixed Migration: The 10-Point Plan in action

February 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Compilations

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