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- 1951 Refugee Convention 3
- 1969 OAU Convention 3
- 1984 Cartagena Declaration 3
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- Generalized violence 3
- Human rights activists 1
- Internal armed conflict 4
- Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 4
- International protection 5
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 1
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- Non-state agents of persecution 3
- Opposition 1
- Refugee / Asylum law 1
- Refugees 1
- Regional instruments 1
- Rejected asylum-seekers 1
- Return conditions 3
- Security situation 3
- Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 1
- Trafficking in persons 1
- Voluntary repatriation 1
- Women-at-risk 1
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