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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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2019 Compliance Update: Machine-Readable Convention Travel Documents for Refugees and Stateless Persons

2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the case of Seraj Eddin v. Serbia (Appl. No. 61365/16) before the European Court of Human Rights

20 June 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

UNHCR-Empfehlungen zu den Änderungsentwürfen zur Verordnung über die Einreise und die Visumerteilung (VEV), Verordnung über die Ausstellung von Reisedokumenten für ausländische Personen (RDV)

May 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

UNHCR Annual Update 2017: Machine-Readable Travel Documents for Refugees and Stateless persons

January 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Annual Reports

Guide for Issuing Machine Readable Convention Travel Documents for Refugees and Stateless Persons, jointly published by UNHCR and the ICAO

February 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Operational Guidelines

Amicus curiae of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on the interpretation and application of Article 25, Article 27 and Article 28 of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees

22 December 2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Trinidad and Tobago: UNHCR Submission for the Universal Periodic Review – Trinidad and Tobago – UPR 25th Session (2016)

May 2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Belarus: UNHCR Submission for the Universal Periodic Review – Belarus – UPR 22nd Session (2015)

May 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Opinion : The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the Obligations of States under Articles 25, 27 and 28, with particular reference to refugees without identity or travel documents

May 2000 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

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