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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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UNHCR Position on Returns to South Sudan - Update II

April 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country/Situation Specific Position Papers

Aide Memoire - Operational Guidance on Maintaining the Civilian and Humanitarian Character of Sites and Settlements

July 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Guidelines

Technical Note on UNHCR's Engagement in the Implementation of the Protection Mechanisms Established by Security Council Resolutions 1612 and 1960 (MRM and MARA)

January 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Notes on International Protection

Technical Note on UNHCR's Engagement in the Implementation of the Protection Mechanisms Established by Security Council Resolutions 1612 and 1960 (MRM and MARA)

January 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Notes on International Protection

Technical Note on UNHCR's Engagement in the Implementation of the Protection Mechanisms Established by Security Council Resolutions 1612 and 1960 (MRM and MARA)

January 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Notes on International Protection

Technical Note on UNHCR's Engagement in the Implementation of the Protection Mechanisms Established by Security Council Resolutions 1612 and 1960 (MRM and MARA)

January 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Notes on International Protection

International Protection Considerations with regard to people fleeing the Syrian Arab Republic, Update V

3 November 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country/Situation Specific Position Papers

Alarm grows over thousands trapped by Syrian fighting

13 October 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Growing concerns for Syrian civilians amid intense fighting in Al Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor

13 October 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UNHCR shocked and saddened by civilian deaths in Taizz, Yemen

19 July 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

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