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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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Fleeing for love: asylum seekers and sexual orientation in Scandinavia

December 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

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

November 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Compilations

UNHCR public statement in relation to cases UM 8628-08, UM 334-09, UM 133-09 pending before the Swedish Migration Court of Appeal

23 April 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Tripartite Memorandum of Understanding Between the Government of the Kingdom of Sweden, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

26 December 2007 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Memoranda of Understanding

UNHCR Comments on the Inquiry (SOU 2006:6, Swedish Government Official Report) on the implementation in Swedish law of Council Directive 2004/83/EC of 29 April 2004 on minimum standards for the qualification and status of third country nationals or stateless persons as refugees or as persons who otherwise need international protection and the content of the protection granted

15 May 2006 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

UNHCR Country Operations Plan 2006 - Baltic / Nordic Region (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden)

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

UNHCR Resettlement Handbook, 2004 (country chapters last updated September 2009)

1 November 2004 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

UNHCR Resettlement Handbook, Country Chapter - Sweden

June 2004 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

UNHCR Country Operations Plan 2003 - Sweden (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)

1 September 2002 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Operations Plans

UNHCR Country Operations Plan 2002 - Nordics

1 July 2001 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Operations Plans

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