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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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Good Practices Paper - Action 1: Resolving Existing Major Situations of Statelessness

16 August 2022 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

UNHCR Submission on Russian Federation: 30th UPR session

May 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

Overview on UNHCR's operations Regional update - Europe

28 September 2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Regional Reports

Ukraine: Internally Displaced People - 10 July 2015

13 July 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Ukraine: Internally Displaced People - 3 June 2015

5 June 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Ukraine: Internally Displaced People - 27 May 2015

29 May 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Ukraine: Overview of population displacement (as of 16 March 2015)

20 March 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Ukraine: Internally Displaced People - 16 Mar 2015

16 March 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Update on UNHCR's global programmes and partnerships

17 September 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Regional Reports

Ukrainians in Russia worry about their future

11 August 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

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