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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UNHCR Position: Interception and turn back of boats
carrying asylum-seekers
23 July 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Profiles |
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Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees For the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report Universal Periodic Review: Australia
March 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports |
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Co-chairs' Summary: International Workshop on the Protection of Irregular Movements of Persons at Sea
Jakarta, Indonesia, 21- 22 April 2014
22 April 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Conference Reports |
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UNHCR seeking details on reports of boats forced back from Australia
10 January 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News |
