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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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Refugees in Iraq camp to enjoy more services, rights after registration

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

UNHCR Syria: Fact Sheet, August 2010

August 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Map of Locations of Groups of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Iraq, July 2007

July 2007 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

The United Nations and Palestinian Refugees

January 2007 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

Aide-Mémoire: Protecting Palestinians in Iraq and Seeking Humanitarian Solutions for Those Who Fled the Country

December 2006 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country/Situation Specific Position Papers

Note sur l'applicabilité de l'article 1D de la Convention de 1951 relative au Statut des réfugiés aux réfugiés palestiniens

2 October 2002 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Policy/Position Papers

Nota sobre la aplicación del artículo 1D de la Convención sobre el Estatuto de los Refugiados de 1951 a los refugiados palestinos

2 October 2002 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Policy/Position Papers

Note über die Anwendbarkeit von Artikel 1D des Abkommens von 1951 über die Rechtsstellung der Flüchtlinge auf palästinensische Flüchtlinge

2 October 2002 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Policy/Position Papers

UNHCR intervention before the Court of Appeal of England and Wales in the case of Amer Mohammed El-Ali (Appellant) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent)

26 June 2002 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

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