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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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Belgium: UNHCR Submission for the Universal Periodic Review - Belgium - UPR 38th Session (2021)

September 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Options Paper 2: Options for governments on open reception and alternatives to detention (first published 2015, revised version 2020)

2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

EU Emergency Relocation Mechanism (as of 27 September 2017)

28 September 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

UNHCR Resettlement Handbook, Country Chapter - Belgium

June 2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

UNHCR Submission on Belgium : UPR 24th Session

June 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

UNHCR Resettlement Handbook, Country Chapter - Belgium

November 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

Mémorandum en matière de protection des réfugiés, des bénéficiaires de la protection subsidiaire et des apatrides en Belgique

June 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Memoranda

UNHCR Resettlement Handbook, Country Chapter - Belgium

June 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

As Syria crisis continues, UNHCR urges EU states to uphold Common Asylum System principles

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

Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the case of Defence for Children International (DCI) v. Belgium

13 July 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

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