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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 observations on legislative amendments related to exclusion from and revocation of refugee status and subsidiary protection status

December 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

Note du HCR sur le projet de loi pour une immigration maîtrisée et un droit d'asile effectif

5 March 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

Note du HCR sur le projet de loi pour une immigration maîtrisée et un droit d'asile effectif

5 March 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

Note du HCR sur le projet de loi pour une immigration maîtrisée et un droit d'asile effectif

5 March 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

Note du HCR sur le projet de loi pour une immigration maîtrisée et un droit d'asile effectif

5 March 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

UNHCR's position on the status of Eritrean and Sudanese nationals defined as 'infiltrators' by Israel

November 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Policy/Position Papers

Case of Pacheco Tineo Family v. Bolivia (Summary of the Judgment)

25 November 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Case Law Compilations/Analyses

UNHCR's Expert Witness Testimony before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Hearing in the case of Pacheco Tineo vs. Bolivia

19 March 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Refugees in the 'sick role': stereotyping refugees and eroding refugee rights

1 August 2006 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

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