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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. Today, a staff of around 7,092 people in 124 countries continues to help 35.8 million persons.  Website: www.unhcr.org
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Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the case of International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and European Council for Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) v. Greece (Complaint No. 173/2018) before the European Committee of Social Rights

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

Recommendations by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) concerning the execution of judgments by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the cases of M.S.S. v. Belgium and Greece (Application No. 30696/09, Grand Chamber judgment of 21 January 2011) and of Rahimi v. Greece (Application No. 8687/08, Chamber judgment of 05 April 2011)

15 May 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Campaign Update, January - March 2019

March 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UNHCR Comments on Draft Law on the "Transposition into Greek Legislation of the provisions of Directive 2013/33/EU of European Parliament and of the Council of 26th June 2013 laying down standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (recast, L180/96/29.6.2013), plus other provisions"

May 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

UNHCR Memorandum on Draft Law on the "Transposition into Greek Legislation of the provisions of Directive 2013/33/EU of European Parliament and of the Council of 26th June 2013 laying down standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (recast, L180/96/29.6.2013), plus other provisions"

27 April 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Memoranda

Situation on Greek islands still grim despite speeded transfers

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

EU Emergency Relocation Mechanism (as of 27 September 2017)

28 September 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

UNHCR urges action to ease conditions on Greek islands

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

EU Emergency Relocation Mechanism (as of 29 August 2017)

29 August 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

EU Emergency Relocation Mechanism As of 31 July 2017

2 August 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

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