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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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Bangladesh: Thousands of new arrivals assisted at transit centre, camp

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

Mud and rain worsen plight for Rohingya refugees

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

Bangladesh: Refugee camp capacity exhausted; thousands in makeshift shelters

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

The young and the hopeless in Bangladesh's camps

23 January 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Making a Splash: refugee Boy Scouts in Bangladesh clean up at the beach

28 September 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Bangladesh: Analysis of Gaps in the Protection of Rohingya Refugees

May 2007 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

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