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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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Libya Factsheet, April 2017

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

60,000 new South Sudanese arrivals in Sudan in first three months of 2017

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

South Sudan's refugee crisis now world's fastest growing

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

Background Note on Gender Equality, Nationality Laws and Statelessness 2017

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

Ethiopia: Refugees and Asylum-seekers as of 28 February 2017

6 March 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in Kenya (as of February 2017)

28 February 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Desperate Journeys

February 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Regional Reports

Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in Kenya (as of January 2017)

31 January 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Sudan: Refugees from South Sudan | 31 December 2016

31 December 2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

UN High Commissioner for Refugees welcomes release of abducted staff

20 December 2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

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