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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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Kenya: Registered Refugees and Asylum-seekers (as of 31 October 2017)

21 November 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

UNHCR concerned over Israel's refugee relocation proposals

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

UNHCR's position on the status of Eritrean and Sudanese nationals defined as 'infiltrators' by Israel

November 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Policy/Position Papers

Ethiopia: Refugees and Asylum-seekers as of 31 May 2017

7 June 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Update on rescue at sea operations in the Central Mediterranean

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

Ethiopia: Refugees and Asylum-seekers as of 31 March 2017

4 April 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Libya Factsheet, April 2017

April 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: UNHCR Country Updates

Ethiopia: Refugees and Asylum-seekers as of 28 February 2017

6 March 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

East, Horn of Africa and Yemen - Displacement of Somalis: Refugees, asylum-seekers and IDPs, as of 01 February 2017

16 February 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Desperate Journeys

February 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Regional Reports

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