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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 Submission on Greece : UPR 25th Session

September 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

UNHCR Recommendations for the Ministerial Conference of the Euro-African Process on Migration and Development (Paris, 20-21 October 2008)

31 July 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

Recommandations de l'UNHCR à la Conférence Ministérielle du Processus Euro-Africain sur la Migration et le Développement (Paris, 20-21 octobre 2008)

31 July 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

Recomendaciones del ACNUR a la Conferencia Ministerial sobre el proceso Euro Africano sobre Migración y Desarrollo (Paris, 20-21 de octubre del 2008)

30 July 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

Commission Green Paper on A Community Return Policy on Illegal Residents. UNHCR's Comments

1 July 2002 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

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