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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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Desperate Journeys

February 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Regional Reports

Senegal & The Gambia: Population Crossing into Senegal & Senegalese Refugee Location in Gambia as of 19 January 2017

19 January 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

UNHCR & IOM - Nationality, Migration and Statelessness in West Africa

June 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Regional Reports

Italy rescues 6,000 people crossing Mediterranean in four days

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

Soumission du Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les Réfugiés Pour la compilation établie par le Haut-Commissariat aux Droits de l'Homme - Examen Périodique Universel: Senegal

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

UNHCR completes repatriation of more than 24,000 Mauritanians

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

Casamance refugees in The Gambia: self-settlement and the challenges of integration

September 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Protecting Refugees and Other Persons on the Move in the ECOWAS Space

January 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Regional Reports

West Africa: Population movement - as of September 2010

20 October 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

UNHCR resumes repatriation of Mauritanian refugees in Senegal

19 October 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

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