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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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Opinion of UNHCR Regarding the Question of "Non-State Persecution", As Discussed With the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the German Parliament (Lower House) on 29 November 1999

29 November 1999 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

UNHCR intervention before the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany - Verfassungsbeschwerden zum neuen Asylrecht - mündliche Verhandlung vor dem Bundesverfassungsgericht vom 21. - 23. November 1995

4 December 1995 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

The Principle of Non-Refoulement as a Norm of Customary International Law. Response to the Questions Posed to UNHCR by the Federal Constitutional Court of the Federal Republic of Germany in Cases 2 BvR 1938/93, 2 BvR 1953/93, 2 BvR 1954/93

31 January 1994 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Policy/Position Papers

The Untouchables: A survey of the Roma People of Central and Eastern Europe

March 1993 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Regional Reports

Abkommen zwischen dem Hohen Komissar der Vereinten Nationen für Flüchtlinge und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland betreffend Leistungen zugunsten von Nationalgeschädigten

5 October 1960 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Multilateral Treaties/Agreements

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