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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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UNHCR Statement on safe country concepts and the right to an effective remedy in admissibility procedures, Issued in the context of the preliminary ruling reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union in the case of LH v Bevándorlási és Menekültügyi Hivatal (C-564/18)

September 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

UNHCR comments on the European Commission's proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on minimum standards for the qualification and status of third country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection and the content of the protection granted (COM(2009)551, 21 October 2009)

29 July 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

Improving decision-making in asylum determination

August 2005 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Note on Access to the Asylum Procedure of Asylum-Seekers Returned to Greece, Inter Alia, Under Arrangements to Transfer Responsibility With Respect to Determining an Asylum Claim or Pursuant to Application of the Safe Third Country Concept

November 2004 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country/Situation Specific Position Papers

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