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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. UNHCR now has more than 16,803 personnel and work in a total of 134 countries to help 70.8 million persons.

 Website: www.unhcr.org
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UNHCR's Approach to Age, Gender and Diversity

December 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Policy/Position Papers

Améliorer la protection des réfugiés et des apatrides en Belgique et dans le monde: Mémorandum du HCR

August 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Memoranda

Améliorer la protection des réfugiés et des apatrides en Belgique et dans le monde: Mémorandum du HCR

August 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Memoranda

Améliorer la protection des réfugiés et des apatrides en Belgique et dans le monde: Mémorandum du HCR

August 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Memoranda

Améliorer la protection des réfugiés et des apatrides en Belgique et dans le monde: Mémorandum du HCR

August 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Memoranda

Améliorer la protection des réfugiés et des apatrides en Belgique et dans le monde: Mémorandum du HCR

August 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Memoranda

UNHCR's Recommendations to the Federal Republic of Austria for its Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU)

June 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: General Comments/Recommendations

UNHCR Policy on Age, Gender and Diversity

8 March 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Policy/Position Papers

UNHCR's recommendations to Bulgaria for its Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) - A time for solidarity - January – June 2018

December 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: General Comments/Recommendations

UNHCR intervention before the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in the case of Dimbil Noor Hassan v. Jefferson B. Sessions, III, Attorney General

20 November 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

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