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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 Observations on the Proposal for amendments to the Danish Alien Act (Introduction of the possibility to transfer asylum-seekers for adjudication of asylum claims and accommodation in third countries)

8 March 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

Brief of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees before the Supreme Court of the United States in the case CHAD F. WOLF, ACTING SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY, et al., PETITIONERS, v. INNOVATION LAW LAB, et al., RESPONDENTS.

22 January 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Written observations by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the case of A.H. v National Directorate-General/or Aliens Policing (11.K.706.750/2020) before the Budapest Capital Regional Court

25 November 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Estonia: UNHCR Submission for the Universal Periodic Review - Estonia - UPR 38th Session (2021)

October 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Seychelles: UNHCR Submission for the Universal Periodic Review - Seychelles - UPR 38th Session (2021)

October 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Singapore: UNHCR Submission for the Universal Periodic Review - Singapore - UPR 38th Session (2021)

October 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Somalia: UNHCR Submission for the Universal Periodic Review - Somalia - UPR 38th Session (2021)

October 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

UNHCR observations on the draft amendments to the Law on Refugees and Asylum and the Administrative Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia

September 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

Belgium: UNHCR Submission for the Universal Periodic Review - Belgium - UPR 38th Session (2021)

September 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Lebanon: UNHCR Submission for the Universal Periodic Review - Lebanon - UPR 37th Session (2021)

July 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

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