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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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UNHCR's Recommendations for the French and Czech Presidencies of the Council of the European Union (EU)

January 2022 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: General Comments/Recommendations

France: UNHCR Submission for the Universal Periodic Review – France – UPR 15th Session (2013)

January 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

UNHCR intervention before the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Xb. v. France and Greece

October 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Observations écrites du HCR devant la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme dans l'affaire I. M. c. France

September 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Building a Europe of Asylum: UNHCR's Recommendations to France for its European Union Presidency (July - December 2008)

9 June 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: General Comments/Recommendations

Construire une Europe de l'asile : Recommandations de l'UNHCR pour la Présidence française de l'Union européenne (juillet - décembre 2008)

9 June 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

Construyendo una Europa de Asilo. Recomendaciones del ACNUR a Francia para la Presidencia de la Unión Europea (Julio - Diciembre 2008)

9 June 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

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