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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.

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Compilation of recommendations relating to statelessness made during the first cycle (1st - 12th sessions) of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review

11 July 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Compilations

Angolan refugee successfully integrates in Russia

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

Zambia begins granting Angolan refugees permanent residency

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

Protracted refugee situations in Liberia and Angola to finally end

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

UNHCR repatriates almost 14,000 Angolans; steps up pace of return ahead of deadline

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

After decades, a journey home for Angolan refugees

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

Urban teacher gives up life in Congo to start afresh in Angola

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

Mise en oeuvre de la Stratégie globale relative à la situation des réfugiés angolais, y compris des recommandations du HCR sur I'applicabilité des clauses de cessation « pour circonstances ayant cessé d'exister »

15 January 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: General Comments/Recommendations

Implementation of the Comprehensive Strategy for the Angolan Refugee Situation, including UNHCR's recommendations on the applicability of the "ceased circumstances" cessation clauses

15 January 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: General Comments/Recommendations

Statelessness in Southern Africa

2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

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