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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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Finding refuge in Iraq's Kurdistan region

16 June 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UNHCR responds to massive displacement of Iraqis from Mosul

11 June 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Displacement growing in Iraq's Anbar province as fighting rages

6 June 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Ceasefire allows first aid into Aleppo neighbourhood in nearly a year

9 April 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UNHCR condemns deadly attack in Homs on collective shelter

8 March 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UN and partners deliver desperately needed aid to besieged Syrian city of Homs

11 February 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

140,000 displaced from Iraq's Anbar province

24 January 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UNHCR deploys additional emergency teams in Central African Republic

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

Fighting in Bangui, Central African Republic, displaces some 210,000 people

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

Worsening humanitarian crisis in CAR as 159,000 displaced, over 600 killed

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

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