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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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Update #6: Camp New Iraq (formerly Camp Ashraf) residents and the processing of their cases for solutions

19 July 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: UNHCR Country Updates

Information For Asylum-Seekers and Refugees in Egypt

April 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Profiles

UNHCR Chief Guterres strongly condemns deadly attack on Camp Liberty in Iraq

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

Update #4: Camp New Iraq (formerly Camp Ashraf) residents and the determination of their international protection needs

13 December 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: UNHCR Country Updates

Update #2: Camp New Iraq (formerly Camp Ashraf) residents and the determination of their refugee status claims

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

Camp New Iraq (formerly Camp Ashraf) residents and the determination of their refugee status claims

13 September 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country/Situation Specific Position Papers

UNHCR Tunisia: Fact Sheet, August 2010

August 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

UNHCR's Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Iraqi Asylum-seekers

August 2007 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country/Situation Specific Position Papers

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