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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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Syria Refugee Response Lebanon: Bekaa Governorate - Reaching the Most Vulnerable Localities in Lebanon, Health centers PHC, SHC and MMU

14 May 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Qatar: UNHCR Submission for the Universal Periodic Review – Qatar – UPR 19th Session (2014)

April 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Situation in CAR remains unstable, humanitarian access difficult, civilians in fear

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

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

June 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

International Protection Considerations with regard to people fleeing the Syrian Arab Republic, Update I

December 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country/Situation Specific Position Papers

Update on the Solutions Strategy for Afghan Refugees

September 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Annual Reports

Psychotherapeutic Support for Women and their Families

August 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Legal Articles/Analyses/Commentaries

Suriname Mission Report

22 July 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Mission Reports

Update of UNHCR Aide-Memoire of 2006. Protection Considerations for Palestinian refugees in Iraq

July 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country/Situation Specific Position Papers

Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report - Universal Periodic Review: Gabon

April 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Compilations

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