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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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Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees For the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report - Universal Periodic Review: Malta

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

Country of Origin Series: Guatemala: Background Paper

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

UNHCR Monitoring Visit to Manus Island, Papua New Guinea : 11-13 June 2013

12 July 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Moving Further Toward a Common European Asylum System: UNHCR's statement on the EU asylum legislative package

June 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Speeches/Statements

UN refugee agency concerned over treatment of asylum-seekers in Ukraine

1 February 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

The Human and Financial Cost of Detention of Asylum-Seekers in Canada

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

Statement by UNHCR at the interactive panel discussion on "human rights of migrants in detention centres" (12th session of the Human Rights Council)

17 September 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Speeches/Statements

Selected Documents Relating to Detention

February 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

UNHCR letter to letter submitted to the Civil Court, First Hall, of Malta in relation to the case of Tafarra Besabe Berhe vs. Police Commissioner as Principal Immigration Officer and the Minister for Justice and Home Affairs

July 2007 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

UNHCR's Revised Guidelines on Applicable Criteria and Standards relating to the Detention of Asylum-Seekers

26 February 1999 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Guidelines

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