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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.

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UNHCR Recommendations to Support the Work of the Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families

25 January 2022 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

Opinion by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the Petition of 21-Jinjeong-0274200 submitted to the National Human Rights Commission of Korea

December 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

UNHCR Note on the "Externalization" of International Protection

28 May 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Policy/Position Papers

Annex to UNHCR Note on the "Externalization" of International Protection: Policies and practices related to the externalization of international protection

28 May 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Policy/Position Papers

Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the case of N.E. and Others v. Greece (Appl. no. 8716/20) before the European Court of Human Rights

11 November 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

UNHCR-Analyse des Entwurfs eines Gesetzes, mit dem das Gesetz über die Gewährung von Sozialunterstützung (Steiermärkisches Sozialunterstützungsgesetz) erlassen und das Steiermärkische Sozialhilfegesetz, das Steiermärkische Wohnunterstützungsgesetz, das Steiermärkische Behindertengesetz und das Steiermärkische Grundversorgungsgesetz geändert werden

18 August 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

Austria: UNHCR Submission for the Universal Periodic Review - Austria - UPR 37th Session (2021)

July 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Practical Recommendations and Good Practice to Address Protection Concerns in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic

9 April 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: General Comments/Recommendations

UNHCR Submission for the Universal Periodic Review – Bulgaria – UPR 36th Session (2019)

9 January 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe concerning the supervision of the execution of the judgment by the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Sharifi and Others v. Italy and Greece (no. 16643/09, judgment of 21 October 2014)

January 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

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