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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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UNHCR legal observations on the amendments to the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Legal Status of Aliens (No XIV-506)

28 July 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

UNHCR Discussion Paper Fair and Fast - Accelerated and Simplified Procedures in the European Union

25 July 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

UNHCR-Empfehlungen im Rahmen der Vernehmlassung zur Änderung des Schweizer Asylgesetzes (AsylG)

October 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

Initial observations by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Regional Representation for the Baltic and Nordic Countries on Law Proposal No. 579/Lp11 Amending the Asylum Law of the Republic of Latvia

May 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

UNHCR-Empfehlungen im Rahmen der Vernehmlassung zur Änderung der Verordnungen zum Asylgesetz zum Zwecke der Umsetzung der dringlichen Änderungen des Schweizer Asylgesetzes (AsylG)

March 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

UNHCR-Stellungnahme zum Bericht des Eidgenössischen Justiz- und Polizeidepartements (EJPD) vom Juli 2011 über die Änderung des Asylgesetzes im Rahmen einer Zusatzbotschaft zur Botschaft zur Änderung des Asylgesetzes vom 26. Mai 2010

August 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

Intervention orale du HCR devant la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme - Audience dans l'affaire I.M. c. France

17 May 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Observations actualisées du HCR devant la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme dans l'affaire I. M. c. France

31 March 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

UNHCR intervention before the Court of Appeal of England and Wales in the case of R (on the application of Suckrajh) v. (1) Asylum and Immigration Tribunal; (2) Secretary of State for the Home Department

2 March 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

UNHCR public statement in relation to Brahim Samba Diouf v. Ministre du Travail, de l'Emploi et de l'Immigration pending before the Court of Justice of the European Union

21 May 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

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