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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's Comments on the Legislative Amendment Proposal to the Refugee Act of the Republic of Korea

17 February 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

UNHCR intervention before the Constitutional Court of Austria in the case G 16, 17/04 - Stellungnahme des Flüchtlingshochkommissariats der Vereinten Nationen (UNHCR) an den Verfassungsgerichtshof im Verfahren G 16, 17/04

1 April 2004 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

UNHCR's Position on Manifestly Unfounded Applications for Asylum

1 December 1992 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Policy/Position Papers

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