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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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Iraq: Prevalence of Rape and Other Forms of Sexual Violence against Men and Boys, and Possible Repercussions against Survivors

21 June 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Query Responses

UNHCR's intervention before the Constitutional Court of Ecuador in the framework of Public Unconstitutionality Action No. 0014-19 (Ministerial Agreements and requirements for access to the territory of Venezuelans in Ecuador)

6 June 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

COI Note on the Situation of Yazidi IDPs in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

6 May 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

COI Note on the Acquisition of Iraqi Nationality by a Child Born Outside Iraq

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

UNHCR Leitfaden Zur Prüfung Einer Innerstaatlichen Fluchtalternative in Afghanistan

November 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country/Situation Specific Position Papers

Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the case of A.S.N and T.K.M v The Netherlands (Appl. no. 68377/17) before the European Court of Human Rights

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

UNHCR launches new online database with human rights and refugee information in Spanish

6 April 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Speeches/Statements

Relevant COI for Assessments on the Availability of an Internal Flight or Relocation Alternative (IFA/IRA) in Baghdad for Sunni Arabs from ISIS-Held Areas

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

Relevant COI for Assessments on the Availability of an Internal Flight or Relocation Alternative (IFA/IRA) for Yazidis in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KR-I)

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

Amicus curiae submissions of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in case number 12-306487/UM3940-14

30 December 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

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