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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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Comments of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the Proposed Rule from the U.S. Department of Justice (Executive Office for Immigration Review) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services): "Circumvention of Lawful Pathways"

20 March 2023 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

Guidance Note on the International Protection Needs of People Fleeing Afghanistan (Update I)

February 2023 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country/Situation Specific Position Papers

International Protection Considerations with Regard to People Fleeing Somalia

September 2022 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country/Situation Specific Position Papers

Analytical Report: On the Legislation and Practice of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the Context of Prospects for the Accession to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol

2022 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

UNHCR Observations on the Nationality and Borders Bill, Bill 141, 2021-22

October 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

Note on International Protection

8 July 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Notes on International Protection

UNHCR comments on the Bill for partial amendments to the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act submitted to the 204th Diet session of year 2021 Based on the Recommendations of the Sub-Committee on Detention and Deportation (SCDD), 7th Immigration Control Policy Discussion Panel

9 April 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

UNHCR Submission for the Universal Periodic Review – Tajikistan – UPR 39th Session (2021)

April 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

UNHCR Observations on the Proposal for amendments to the Danish Alien Act (Introduction of the possibility to transfer asylum-seekers for adjudication of asylum claims and accommodation in third countries)

8 March 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

UNHCR Submission for the Universal Periodic Review – Papua New Guinea – UPR 39th Session (2021)

March 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

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