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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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Good Practices Paper - Action 1: Resolving Existing Major Situations of Statelessness

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

Update on UNHCR's operations in Asia and the Pacific - 2010

30 September 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Sessional Reports

Kyrgyzstan: Osh Relief Operation - Protection Assessment Locations Osh (30th June - 3rd July 2010)

7 July 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Map of Assisted Voluntary Repatriation to Afghanistan - Return by Province of Destination - Ethnicity - March 2002 - June 2008

June 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Map of Assisted Voluntary Repatriation to Afghanistan: Return by Destination - Ethnicity - March 2002- May 2008

31 May 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

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