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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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Situation au Mali: Refugiés, Rapatriés et Personnes déplacées Internes au Mali, août 2014

31 August 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Refugee camp closed in Liberia as return to Côte d'Ivoire gathers momentum

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

Teenage Ivorian refugee discovers a new world in Tunisia

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

New Ivorian refugee camp opened in eastern Liberia

2 September 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

More Ivorian refugees move into Liberia's camps

21 July 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UNHCR starts work on new camp for internally displaced in Côte d'Ivoire

16 February 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UNHCR building refugee camp in Liberia for initial 18,000 Ivorians

11 January 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UNHCR to establish new camp in Liberia for refugees from Côte d'Ivoire

31 December 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UNHCR Algeria: Fact Sheet, August 2010

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

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