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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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Angolan refugee successfully integrates in Russia

6 May 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Information for persons who wish to seek asylum in the Russian Federation

November 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report - Universal Periodic Review: The Russian Federation

October 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Compilations

The UN Refugee Agency condemns refoulement of a refugee to Russian Federation

17 August 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UNHCR Global Report 2011, Russian Federation

June 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Annual Reports

A third of refugees in Poland may be homeless

20 February 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries: Statistical overview of asylum applications lodged in Europe and selected non-European countries

18 October 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

UNHCR Global Report 2010, Russian Federation

June 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Annual Reports

UNHCR intervention before the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Lakatosh and Others v. Russia

March 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Georgia project leads the way for socio-economic integration of refugees

20 December 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

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