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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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Amicus curiae of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in case number 20-121835SIV-HRET regarding F.K. and others against the State/the Norwegian Appeals Board before the Supreme Court of Norway (Norges Høyesterett)

16 December 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

UNHCR Observations on the proposed legislative amendments to the Norwegian Immigration Act and Regulations of 28 May 2020 concerning residence permit on grounds of subsidiary protection needs in situations of significant increase in the influx of asylum-seekers

31 August 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

UNHCR Submission on Norway: 33rd UPR Session

May 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

Campaign Update, July – September 2018

October 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Amicus curiae of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees regarding the interpretation of the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons before the Borgarting Court of Appeal of Norway

3 September 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

This is our view: the voices of unaccompanied afghan children in Norway

November 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

UNICEF and UNHCR Observations on the proposed amendments to the Norwegian Nationality Act and Nationality Regulations

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

Resettlement and Other Admission Pathways for Syrian Refugees

30 April 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: UNHCR Country Updates

UNHCR Observations on the proposed amendments to the Norwegian Immigration Act and Immigration Regulations

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

UNHCR Observations on the proposed amendments to the Norwegian Immigration Act

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

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