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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Presentation by the Director of the Regional Bureau for the Americas at the UNHCR Standing Committee (2018) 5 March 2018 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Speeches/Statements
Statement to the 68th Session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme 5 October 2017 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Speeches/Statements
High Commissioner's opening statement at the 67th session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme 3 October 2016 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Speeches/Statements
UNHCR statement in response to statement by the Iraqi Government that Falluja families could start to return home from 1 August 1 July 2016 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Speeches/Statements
66th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme, Geneva, 21-24 June 2016 . Agenda item 2: International Protection. Statement by Volker Türk, Assistant High Commissioner (Protection) 21 June 2016 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Speeches/Statements
Lake Chad Basin Regional Protection Dialogue - Abuja, Nigeria, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 - Remarks by Volker Türk, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection 8 June 2016 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Speeches/Statements
66th Session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme Agenda point 5(a). Statement by Volker Türk, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection 8 October 2015 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Speeches/Statements
Key Messages to The AU-Horn of Africa Initiative on Human Trafficking and Smuggling of Migrants by The North Africa Mixed Migration Task Force September 2015 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Speeches/Statements
Struggle to reach safety for thousands of civilians fleeing Iraq's Ramadi 21 April 2015 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Speeches/Statements
65th Session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme Agenda item 5(a) Statement by Volker Türk Director of International Protection 2 October 2014 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Speeches/Statements

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