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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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Beyond Detention: A Global Strategy to support governments to end the detention of asylum-seeker and refugees, 2014-2019. National Action Plan - Israel

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

Access through Rafah Border Crossing the Gaza Strip

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

Smuggling and Trafficking from the East of Africa: Progress Report

October 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Regional Reports

UNHCR is concerned at new Amendment to Israel's Law on the Prevention of Infiltration

10 January 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees For the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report - Universal Periodic Review: Israel

September 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

UNHCR intervention before the Supreme Court of Israel in the case HCJ 7146/12

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

Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees For the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report - Universal Periodic Review: Israel

July 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Ordered disorder: African asylum seekers in Israel and discursive challenges to an emerging refugee regime

March 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

A promised land for refugees? Asylum and migration in Israel

December 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

The Middle East Atlas Map

28 January 2007 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

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