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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 welcomes Kenya High Court decision on urban refugee rights

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

A Congolese mother and her sons regain hope in Cape Town

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

Newcomers to Nairobi: the protection concerns and survival strategies of asylum seekers in Kenya's capital city

July 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

ACNUR Informe Mundial 2012, Ecuador

June 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Annual Reports

ACNUR Informe Mundial 2012, Ecuador

June 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Annual Reports

UNHCR Syria Refugee Fact Sheet

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

Syrians in Jordan: A community of refugees flowers in the desert

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

UNHCR intervention before the High Court of Kenya in the case of Kituo Cha Sheria and others v. The Attorney General

12 March 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

UNHCR welcomes Turkey's registration of Syrians in urban areas

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

La implementación de la política del ACNUR sobre la protección de los refugiados y las soluciones en zonas urbanas - Encuesta Mundial– 2012

2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Annual Reports

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