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- 1951 Refugee Convention 1
- Asylum-migration nexus 1
- Asylum-seekers 2
- Child soldiers 1
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 1
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 1
- Migrants 1
- Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 1
- Persons of concern to UNHCR 1
- Reception 1
- Refugees 2
- Return conditions 1
- Returnees 1
- Statelessness 1
- Torture 1
- Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2
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UNHCR Submission on Afghanistan: 32nd UPR session
December 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries |
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Forced Recruitment by the Taliban in Afghanistan - UNHCR's perspective
10 July 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries |
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As states increase border controls, UNHCR calls for sensitivity for those fleeing persecution
7 January 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries |
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Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report - Universal Periodic Review: Afghanistan
3 November 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries |
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UNHCR's Observations on the EU Draft Afghanistan Return Plan
November 2002 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries |
