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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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East & Horn of Africa Update Somali Displacement Crisis at a glance

20 July 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Refugee protection in countries affected by recent events in the Arab World

23 June 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UNHCR worried about refugees and displaced people in strife-torn Yemen

3 June 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Yemen clashes kill two refugees and displace thousands

3 June 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Detained Eritrean deserters leave Yemen for a new life in Sweden

1 June 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

New drowning incidents involving refugees in the Gulf of Aden

15 April 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UNHCR encouraged by prospects of improved access in northern Yemen

18 January 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UNHCR In Somalia: Fact Sheet | January 2011

17 January 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

High Commissioner Guterres seeks stepped up access and aid for Yemen

17 January 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UN refugee agency and European Commission on unprecedented visit to Yemen

13 January 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

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