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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 Comments on the Urgency Law for Ukrainians (Proposal no. 145)

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

UNHCR Position on Returns to Ukraine

March 2022 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country/Situation Specific Position Papers

UNHCR Observations on the proposed legislative amendments to the Norwegian Immigration Act and Regulations of 28 May 2020 concerning residence permit on grounds of subsidiary protection needs in situations of significant increase in the influx of asylum-seekers

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

UNHCR-Stellungnahme zur vorgeschlagenen Einschränkung des Anspruchs auf Familienzusammenführung für Personen mit vorübergehendem Schutzstatus

1 May 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the case of M.A. v. Denmark (Application no. 6697/18) before the European Court of Human Rights

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

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

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

Guidelines on International Protection No. 11 : Prima Facie Recognition of Refugee Status

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

Risks growing for increasing numbers of refugees and migrants crossing the Western Balkans

12 June 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

60th Meeting of the Standing Committee - Agenda item 2: International Protection (1 July 2014), Speech by Volker Türk

1 July 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Speeches/Statements

Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) For the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report – Universal Periodic Review: The Republic of Turkey

June 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Compilations

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