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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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As one year ends, Central African refugees make a wish for 2015

8 January 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UNHCR condemns massacres in Beni, in DR Congo and calls for humanitarian access

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

UNHCR helps gay Congolese rejected by his mother find a new home

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

Coexisting in Congo: rivals set an example for peace in Katanga village

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

UNHCR: Return of displaced people in Eastern DR Congo should be voluntary

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

Hundreds of thousands of Congolese flee violence in Katanga province's triangle of death

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

Cash grants transform life in Congo camp for Central African Republic refugees

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

Vigilant UNHCR staff reunite long-separated mother and daughters in Tanzania

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

Angola Repatriation: Antonio returns home after 40 years in DR Congo

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

Hounded from home, raped Congolese woman seeks refugee in Burundi

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

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