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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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Eight asylum-seekers suffocate in Mozambique en route to South Africa

8 February 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UNHCR Global Report 2009, South Africa

1 June 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Annual Reports

Map of Africa: Total population of concern to UNHCR by country of asylum and category, end-2008

25 September 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Map of Africa: Total refugee population by country of asylum, end-2008

25 September 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

UNHCR Global Report 2008, South Africa

June 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report (Excerpts of Treaty Body Concluding Observations and Special Procedure Reports) - Universal Periodic Review: South Africa

19 November 2007 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

UNHCR Global Report 2006, South Africa

June 2007 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Annual Reports

UNHCR intervention before the United States Board of Immigration Appeals in the Matter of Michelle Thomas et al. (in Removal Proceedings)

25 January 2007 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

UNHCR Country Operations Plan 2006 - South Africa

1 September 2005 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Operations Plans

South Africa Atlas Map

30 June 2005 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

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