Last Updated: Thursday, 31 October 2019, 14:44 GMT

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
Selected filters: Somalis
Filter:
Showing 81-90 of 101 results
UNHCR public statement in relation to AMM and others v. Secretary of State for the Home Department pending before the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)

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

Yemen clashes kill two refugees and displace thousands

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

Asylum and the path to citizenship: a case study of Somalis in the United Kingdom

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

UNHCR condemns shooting of Somali asylum-seekers in Mozambique

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

50,000 civilians flee Somalia in first quarter, double from a year earlier

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

New drowning incidents involving refugees in the Gulf of Aden

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

Gulf of Aden drownings raise concerns over smuggling and rescue-at-sea tradition

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

Fighting in Somalia displaces some 33,000 people over past six weeks

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

UNHCR calls on States to uphold principles of rescue-at-sea and burden sharing

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

Giving up your child to save her: a tale from Tunisia

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

Search Refworld