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- Asylum-seekers 2
- Extreme poverty 1
- Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 1
- Immigration Detention 3
- Refugees 2
- Right to education 1
- Right to employment 1
- Right to health 1
- Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 2
- Statelessness 2
- Trafficking in persons 2
- Unaccompanied / Separated children 2
- Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 3
- Women-at-risk 2
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