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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 Submission on Nicaragua: 33rd UPR Session

May 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

UNHCR Comments on "EASO Country Guidance: Nigeria" (February 2019)

May 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

UNHCR's Comments on the EU Proposal for a Regulation Establishing the Asylum & Migration Fund (2021 - 2027)

February 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

UNHCR's position on the status of Eritrean and Sudanese nationals defined as 'infiltrators' by Israel

November 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Policy/Position Papers

Climate Change, Disasters and Displacement

2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Training Manuals

UNHCR RSD Procedural Standards - Legal Representation in UNHCR RSD Procedures

2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

Note on International Protection

9 July 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Notes on International Protection

UNHCR's mandate in relation to assistance to refugees and other people of concern

3 June 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Policy/Position Papers

I. A. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department: Case for the Intervener

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

Note on the Mandate of the High Commissioner for Refugees and his Office

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

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