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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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Climate Change, Displacement and Human Rights

March 2022 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

Legal considerations regarding claims for international protection made in the context of the adverse effects of climate change and disasters

1 October 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Policy/Position Papers

Refugee Law in a Time of Climate Change, Disaster and Conflict

January 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Joint Letter from IOM and UNHCR on the Collaboration Between the two Organizations

25 January 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Speeches/Statements

In Harm's Way: International Protection in the Context of Nexus Dynamics Between Conflict or Violence and Disaster or Climate Change

December 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

2017 UNHCR Engagement in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

7 December 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

2017 UNHCR Engagement in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

7 December 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

2017 UNHCR Engagement in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

7 December 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

2017 UNHCR Engagement in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

7 December 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

Climate change, disaster and displacement in the Global Compacts: UNHCR's perspectives

November 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

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