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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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Somali Refugees in the Region

15 January 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Burundians restart their lives with empty soda bottles, goats in scarves

29 December 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Somali Refugees in the Region: As of 12 December 2012

12 December 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

After 20 years, more than 1,000 Burundians returning home every day

14 November 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Somali Refugees in the Region - As of 12 October 2012

12 October 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Somali Refugees in the Region

20 September 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Back to the land: the long-term challenges of refugee return and reintegration in Burundi

30 August 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Registered Somalis in the East and Horn of Africa Region - As of 19 August 2012

19 August 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

After a decade in Mogadishu, Tanzanian refugees return to Zanzibar

10 July 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

From Mogadishu with love: a refugee's dream to see Zanzibar again

10 July 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

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