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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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Alarm grows over thousands trapped by Syrian fighting

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

Growing concerns for Syrian civilians amid intense fighting in Al Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor

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

Growing concerns for Syrian civilians amid intense fighting in Al Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor

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

New supply route boosts humanitarian response in Syria's Ar-Raqqa

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

Once blossoming Syrian town now scarred by war

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

Once blossoming Syrian town now scarred by war

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

Amid the ruins of Aleppo, UNHCR sees signs of hope

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

East Aleppo residents tell of horror, cold and hunger

14 December 2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UNHCR makes new aid delivery push in Yemen, welcomes 72-hour ceasefire

21 October 2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Fears grow for Aleppo residents amid latest violence

9 August 2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

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