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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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Dashboard: South Sudan Refugee Crisis (as of 31 August 2017)

13 September 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Young People on the Move and their engagement in Peace & Security: Case Study from the North of Central America and South Sudan

September 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Showing Solidarity with Refugees and Uganda

27 June 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Uganda: UNHCR Presence and refugee locations | May 2017

10 May 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

More than one million children have fled escalating violence in South Sudan

8 May 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UNHCR assures Uganda of international commitment to support its refugee protection, management and social integration policies

13 April 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

More than 6,000 flee fresh South Sudan violence into Uganda

7 April 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Breaking Point' imminent: Government of Uganda, UNHCR say help for South Sudan refugee inflow urgently needed

23 March 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UN agency, Ugandan government call for urgent support amid influx of South Sudanese refugees

23 March 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

South Sudan's refugee crisis now world's fastest growing, Uganda and region in critical need of help

17 March 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

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