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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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Protection Policy Paper: The return of persons found not to be in need of international protection to their countries of origin: UNHCR's role

November 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Policy/Position Papers

UNHCR Note on the Interpretation of Article 1E of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees

March 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Policy/Position Papers

Nota del ACNUR sobre la interpretación del artículo 1E de la Convención sobre el Estatuto de los Refugiados de 1951

March 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Policy/Position Papers

Note sur l'applicabilité de l'article 1D de la Convention de 1951 relative au Statut des réfugiés aux réfugiés palestiniens

2 October 2002 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Policy/Position Papers

Nota sobre la aplicación del artículo 1D de la Convención sobre el Estatuto de los Refugiados de 1951 a los refugiados palestinos

2 October 2002 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Policy/Position Papers

Note über die Anwendbarkeit von Artikel 1D des Abkommens von 1951 über die Rechtsstellung der Flüchtlinge auf palästinensische Flüchtlinge

2 October 2002 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Policy/Position Papers

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