Last Updated: Tuesday, 23 May 2023, 12:44 GMT

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
Selected filters: Somalia
Filter:
Showing 31-40 of 551 results
Somalia Protection Cluster Activities - Who is Doing What Where (3W) As of February 2017

31 March 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Hungry and desperate, thousands of Somalis trek to Ethiopia

24 March 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Background Note on Gender Equality, Nationality Laws and Statelessness 2017

8 March 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

Ethiopia: Refugees and Asylum-seekers as of 28 February 2017

6 March 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in Kenya (as of February 2017)

28 February 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Somalia: Areas of origin of registered Somali refugees and asylum-seekers in Dadaab and Alinjugur refugee camps in Kenya | 28th February 2017

28 February 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Inside Somalia, drought displacement growing

21 February 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

East, Horn of Africa and Yemen - Displacement of Somalis: Refugees, asylum-seekers and IDPs, as of 01 February 2017

16 February 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Insecurity in Yemen threatens incoming refugees and migrants

7 February 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Uganda - Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in Country (as of 1 February 2016)

1 February 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Search Refworld