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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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ACNUR Informe Mundial 2012, América del Norte y el Caribe

June 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Annual Reports

Actualización de los Programas y Estrategias del ACNUR 2013: Las Américas

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

Citizens of Nowhere: Solutions for the Stateless in the U.S.

December 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

Matters of C.P.-G., C.-G., V.-C., C.-G., and A.-C., Amicus Curiae Brief, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees In Support of Respondents

21 November 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

UNHCR intervention before the United States Board of Immigration Appeals in the matter of Valdiviezo-Galdamez

10 August 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

More people are risking lives in the Caribbean to reach safety

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

Global Report 2011 - Americas

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

UNHCR welcomes adoption of Joint EU Resettlement Programme

30 March 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UNHCR intervention before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the case of Henriquez-Rivas v. Holder, Attorney General

23 February 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

UNHCR letter to legal counsel relating to the case of AK

15 February 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

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