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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 prepared to discuss return arrangement, outlines preconditions for Rohingya refugees returns

8 December 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UNHCR Syria In Focus - Issue 12 of 2015

7 September 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: UNHCR Country Updates

International Protection Considerations with regard to people fleeing the Syrian Arab Republic, Update I

December 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country/Situation Specific Position Papers

Update on the Solutions Strategy for Afghan Refugees

September 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Annual Reports

Refugee returnees in eastern Congo get title deeds for first time

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

'Repatriation is not for everyone': the life and livelihoods of former refugees in Liberia

June 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Tripartite Memorandum of Understanding Between the Government of the Kingdom of Sweden, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

26 December 2007 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Memoranda of Understanding

Tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (the MoU) between the Government of Norway, the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

10 August 2005 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Memoranda of Understanding

Tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (the MoU) between the Islamic Transitional State of Afghanistan, the Government of Denmark and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

18 October 2004 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Memoranda of Understanding

Between homes: post-war return, emplacement and the negotiation of belonging in Lebanon

24 February 2003 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

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