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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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Thousands of civilians flee raging battle for Falluja

31 May 2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Observations by the Representative Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Kyrgyz Republic on the draft Law on Amendments to Certain Legal Acts of Kyrgyz Republic ("Deprivation of Nationality as a Measure of Counteraction to Terrorist Activities")

March 2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

Addressing Security Concerns Without Undermining Refugee Protection - UNHCR's Perspective

17 December 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Nigeria - COI Compilation

October 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Compilations

Letter dated 2 September 2015 from the Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1373 (2001) concerning counter-terrorism addressed to the President of the Security Council

2 September 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

AH (Algeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: Further submission on behalf of UNHCR

11 June 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

As violence spills over to countries neighbouring Nigeria, UNHCR calls for urgent humanitarian access to the displaced

13 February 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria force 13,000 to flee to Cameroon

11 November 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Nigeria crisis: border insecurity hampers relocation of refugees to camp in Cameroon

31 October 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

AH (Algeria) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department: Case for the Intervener

21 October 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

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