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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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As asylum applications by Venezuelans soar, UNHCR steps up response

14 July 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Trinidad and Tobago: UNHCR Submission for the Universal Periodic Review – Trinidad and Tobago – UPR 25th Session (2016)

May 2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Update on UNHCR's operations in the Americas

17 September 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Regional Reports

Compilation of recommendations relating to statelessness made during the first cycle (1st - 12th sessions) of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review

11 July 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Compilations

Global Report 2010 - North American and the Caribbean

20 June 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report - Universal Periodic Review: Trinidad and Tobago

March 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

UNHCR Global Report 2009, North America and the Carribean

1 June 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Annual Reports

Programas y Estrategias del ACNUR 2010-2011: Las Américas

2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Regional Reports

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