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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 Submission for the Universal Periodic Review – Libya – UPR 36th Session (2019)

October 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Update on UNHCR's operations in the Middle East and North Africa

24 September 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Regional Reports

UNHCR says open borders needed for people fleeing Libya

24 February 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Map of Africa: Total population of concern to UNHCR by country of asylum and category, end-2008

25 September 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

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