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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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Karens in Kentucky find new life challenging

3 February 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Age, Gender and Diversity: Best Practice Compilation (Bureau for the Americas)

2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Compilations

Compilación de Buenas Prácticas en Materia de Edad, Género y Diversidad (Oficina para las Américas)

2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Compilations

Programas y Estrategias del ACNUR 2012-2013 - Las Américas

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

Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries: Statistical overview of asylum applications lodged in Europe and selected non-European countries

18 October 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

Hope wins out as Somali refugee heads to Salt Lake City for a new life

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

Sanctuary and solidarity: urban community responses to refugees and asylum seekers on three continents

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

Get up and go: refugee resettlement and secondary migration in the USA.

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

Resettlement programme for refugees from Bhutan passes 50,000 mark

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

UNHCR Resettlement Handbook, Country Chapter - The United States of America

July 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

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