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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 Position on Returns to Yemen – Update I

October 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country/Situation Specific Position Papers

UNHCR Position on Returns to Burkina Faso

30 July 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country/Situation Specific Position Papers

UNHCR's Recommendations for the Portuguese and Slovenian Presidencies of the Council of the European Union (EU)

January 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: General Comments/Recommendations

Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the case of 2019Nu61740 before the Seoul High Court

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

Submission by the UNHCR in the case of S.S. and Others. v. Italy (Appl. No. 21660/18) before the European Court of Human Rights

14 November 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Position on Returns to North Kivu, South Kivu, Ituri and Adjacent Areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Affected by Ongoing Conflict and Violence – Update II

September 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country/Situation Specific Position Papers

UNHCR Position on Returns to Mali - Update II

July 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country/Situation Specific Position Papers

UNHCR Submission on Cambodia: 32nd UPR session

December 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

UNHCR Position on Returns to Libya - Update II

September 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country/Situation Specific Position Papers

UNHCR-Analyse des Entwurfs für das Fremdenrechtsänderungsgesetz 2018

9 May 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on Concluding Observations

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