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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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Statement relating to Appeal Case UM 12033-09 before the Stockholm Migration Court (Availability of State protection in Iraq)

January 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Statement relating to Appeal Case UM 12033-09 before the Stockholm Migration Court (Availability of State protection in Iraq)

January 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Statement relating to Appeal Case UM 12033-09 before the Stockholm Migration Court (Availability of State protection in Iraq)

January 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Summary Conclusions on the Concept of "Effective Protection" in the Context of Secondary Movements of Refugees and Asylum-Seekers (Lisbon Expert Roundtable, 9-10 December 2002)

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

Secondary Refugee Movements and the Return of Asylum Seekers to Third Countries: The Meaning of Effective Protection

February 2003 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Refugees and the Red Cross: an underdeveloped dimension of protection

15 January 2003 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

The European Union proposal on subsidiary protection: an analysis and assessment

31 December 2002 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Prima facie status and refugee protection

24 October 2002 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

UNHCR's supervisory responsibility

1 October 2002 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the Operational Cooperation Framework between the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Government of the Republic of Armenia

16 September 2002 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Memoranda of Understanding

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