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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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For Afghan refugee miners, bright dreams beckon from the depths

14 December 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

The loneliness of the lone, distant urban refugee

22 September 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UNHCR reaffirms support for integration of 1972 Burundians in Tanzania

29 August 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Refugees in Armenia get wired for work

7 April 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Brazil helps ease local integration of refugees in northern Ecuador

17 February 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Georgia project leads the way for socio-economic integration of refugees

20 December 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

For resettled refugees in Baltimore, many needs, one destination

22 October 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

After almost two decades, displaced sisters finally get a place of their own

18 October 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

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