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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UN Refugee Chief condemns attack on staff in Mali
24 August 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News |
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UNHCR condemns attack on its staff in Central African Republic
4 July 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News |
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Call to Action: Protection Needs in the Northern Triangle of Central America. UNHCR Discussion Paper. A Proposal for a Strategic Regional Response
August 2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Regional Reports |
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Minimum Standards for participation, in humanitarian inter-agency evacuations, informed by
international humanitarian and international human rights law
23 February 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports |
