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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Recommendations by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ('UNHCR') concerning the execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in the cases of Ilias and Ahmed v. Hungary (Application No. 47287/15; Grand Chamber judgment of 21 November 2019) and Shahzad v. Hungary (Application No. 12625/17; Judgment of 8 July 2021) 31 August 2022 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations
Recommendations by UNHCR regarding the execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in the cases of: Kebe and Others v. Ukraine (Appl. No. 12552/12), Nur Ahmed and Others v. Ukraine (Appl. No. 42779/12), Nur and Others v. Ukraine (Appl. No. 77647/11) and M.S. v. Slovakia and Ukraine (Appl. No. 17189/11) 25 November 2021 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations
UNHCR Observations and Recommendations on Statelessness in the Republic of Armenia 20 August 2020 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations
Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe concerning the supervision of the execution of the judgment by the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Sharifi and Others v. Italy and Greece (no. 16643/09, judgment of 21 October 2014) January 2020 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations
Recommendations by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) concerning the execution of judgments by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the cases of M.S.S. v. Belgium and Greece (Application No. 30696/09, Grand Chamber judgment of 21 January 2011) and of Rahimi v. Greece (Application No. 8687/08, Chamber judgment of 05 April 2011) 15 May 2019 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations
Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) concerning the execution of the judgment by the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Sharifi and Others v. Italy and Greece (application no. 16643/09, judgment of 21 October 2014) 18 January 2019 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations
Strengthening current data on refugee and migrant children at EU-level - UNHCR and UNICEF's suggestions for eight priority areas and related recommendations May 2018 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations
UNHCR and Climate Change, Disasters, and Displacement May 2017 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations
Building on the Lessons Learned to Make the Relocation Schemes Work More Effectively January 2016 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations
"Greece as a Country of Asylum" - UNHCR's Recommendations 6 April 2015 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

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