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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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Selected Documents Relating to National Security and Counter-Terrorism Relevant to International Refugee Protection

May 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

UNHCR intervention before the Court of Appeal of England and Wales in the case of YS (Egypt) (Appellant) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent)

19 November 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Selected Documents Relating to National Security and Counter-Terrorism Relevant to International Refugee Protection

July 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

"Terrorism as a Global Phenomenon", UNHCR presentation to the Joint Seminar of the Strategic Committee on Immigration, Frontiers and Asylum (SCIFA) and Committee on Article 36 (CATS)

17 January 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Speeches/Statements

Selected Documents Relevant to National Security and Counter-Terrorism

January 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

UNHCR's Recommendations to the Slovenian Presidency of the European Union, January - June 2008

10 December 2007 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: General Comments/Recommendations

Preserving the Institution of Asylum and Refugee Protection in the Context of Counter-Terrorism: The Problem of Terrorist Mobility

31 October 2007 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Speeches/Statements

Background Paper on Preserving the Institution of Asylum and Refugee Protection in the Context of Counter-Terrorism: The Problem of Terrorist Mobility

October 2007 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Remarks by George Okoth-Obbo, UNHCR Director for International Protection Services at the Symposium on "Advancing the Implementation of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy", 17-18 May 2007, Vienna International Centre

18 May 2007 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Speeches/Statements

Background Paper by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) at the Symposium on "Advancing the Implementation of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy", Vienna International Centre, 17-18 May 2007

17 May 2007 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

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