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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Australia should not coerce vulnerable people to return to harm
4 September 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News |
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Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees For the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report Universal Periodic Review: Australia
March 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports |
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UNHCR reviewing Australian changes on offshore processing
17 August 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News |
