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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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Brief of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as Amicus Curiae Supporting Petitioner in the case of Daniel Girmai Negusie V. Merrick Garland, U.S. Attorney General

4 August 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

The Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ('UNHCR') Statement on family reunification for beneficiaries of international protection Issued in the context of the preliminary ruling reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union in the case of CR, GF, TY v. Landeshauptmann von Wien (C-560/20)

22 June 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Intervention by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the case of The Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness v. Medhanie Aregawi Weldemariam

27 April 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the case of Abdi Ali Mahamud v. the Netherlands (Appl. no. 64534/19) before the European Court of Human Rights

8 April 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Canada (MCI) v Camayo - Memorandum of the Intervener: U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees

24 February 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Brief of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees before the Supreme Court of the United States in the case CHAD F. WOLF, ACTING SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY, et al., PETITIONERS, v. INNOVATION LAW LAB, et al., RESPONDENTS.

22 January 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the case G. v. G.

18 January 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

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

Written observations by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the case of A.H. v National Directorate-General/or Aliens Policing (11.K.706.750/2020) before the Budapest Capital Regional Court

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

Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the case of N.E. and Others v. Greece (Appl. no. 8716/20) before the European Court of Human Rights

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

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