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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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La protection des refugies en droit international

2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Legal Articles/Analyses/Commentaries

Note on the Integration of Refugees in the European Union

May 2007 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Policy/Position Papers

Connected lives: Somalis in Minneapolis, family responsibilities and the migration dreams of relatives

1 July 2006 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

UNHCR intervention before the Constitutional Court of Austria in the case G 16, 17/04 - Stellungnahme des Flüchtlingshochkommissariats der Vereinten Nationen (UNHCR) an den Verfassungsgerichtshof im Verfahren G 16, 17/04

1 April 2004 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Refugee Protection in International Law: UNHCR's Global Consultations on International Protection

2003 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Legal Articles/Analyses/Commentaries

UNHCR's Comments on the Amended Proposal of the European Commission for a Council Directive on the Right to Family Reunification (COM (2002) 225 final, 2 May 2002)

10 September 2002 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

Family Unity and Refugee Protection (Draft) [Global Consultations on International Protection/Second Track]

1 October 2001 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Legal Articles/Analyses/Commentaries

UNHCR Comments to the Commission Proposal for a Council Directive on the Right to Family Reunification (COM (1999) 638)

9 March 2000 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

Family Protection Issues

4 June 1999 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Legal Articles/Analyses/Commentaries

Questions relatives à la protection de la famille

4 June 1999 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Legal Articles/Analyses/Commentaries

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