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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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UNHCR Observations on the draft Law Proposal for an Act on the Promotion of Immigrant Integration

15 June 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees For the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report - Universal Periodic Review: United States of America

October 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Compilations

UNHCR's Oral Statement to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the framework of a request for an Advisory Opinion on Migrant Children presented by MERCOSUR

7 October 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

UNHCR's Oral Statement to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the framework of a request for an Advisory Opinion on Migrant Children presented by MERCOSUR

7 October 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

UNHCR's Oral Statement to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the framework of a request for an Advisory Opinion on Migrant Children presented by MERCOSUR

7 October 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

UNHCR Mission to Manus Island, Papua New Guinea 15-17 January 2013

4 February 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Profiles

Suriname Mission Report

22 July 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Mission Reports

UNHCR letter to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the framework of request for an Advisory Opinion on Migrant Children presented by MERCOSUR

17 February 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Les violences faites aux femmes pendant leur voyage clandestin: Algérie, France, Espagne, Maroc

April 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

UNHCR's Comments on the Bill to Reform the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act of Japan

19 May 2004 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Legal Articles/Analyses/Commentaries

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