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- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 1
- Asylum-migration nexus 2
- Border crossers 2
- Burden-sharing and international co-operation 2
- Communal conflict / Social conflict 1
- Freedom of movement 2
- IDP camps 1
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 1
- Livelihoods 1
- Protection of camps 1
- Refugees 2
- Secondary movement 2
- Urban refugees 1
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'Because I am a stranger' Urban refugees in Yaoundé, Cameroon
20 September 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers |
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West Africa as a Migration and Protection Area
November 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers |
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L'Afrique de l'Ouest comme espace migratoire et espace de protection
November 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers |
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State failure and extra-legal justice: vigilante groups, civil militias and the rule of law in West Africa
October 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers |
