Last Updated: Thursday, 24 October 2019, 17:23 GMT

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
Selected filters: Human rights law
Filter:
Showing 1-10 of 26 results
UNHCR intervention before the European Court of Human Rights in the case of A.L. v. Russia

29 June 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

UNHCR Position on Returns to Iraq

27 October 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country/Situation Specific Position Papers

Luis Alberto Hernandez Febles v. Minister of Citizenship and Immigration: Factum of the Intervener (UNHCR)

11 March 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

UNHCR-Empfehlungen im Rahmen der Vernehmlassung zur Genehmigung und Umsetzung der Notenaustausche zwischen der Schweiz und der Europäischen Union betreffend die Übernahme der revidierten Rechtsgrundlagen der Dublin/Eurodac Zusammenarbeit (Verordnung (EU) Nr. 604/2013 und Verordnung (EU) Nr. 603/2013) (Weiterentwicklung des Dublin/Eurodac-Besitzstands)

November 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

R on the application of EM (Eritrea) and others v. The Secretary of State for the Home Department: Case for the Intervener

3 October 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

UNHCR's Position on the Detention of Asylum-seekers in Malta

18 September 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Policy/Position Papers

Guidance Note on bilateral and/or multilateral transfer arrangements of asylum-seekers

May 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Policy/Position Papers

UNHCR asks Ukraine to free detained refugee, decline extradition request

20 March 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Guidelines on Statelessness No. 3: The Status of Stateless Persons at the National Level

17 July 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Policy/Position Papers

Directrices Sobre la Apatridia No. 3: La condición de las personas apátridas a nivel nacional

17 July 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Policy/Position Papers

Search Refworld