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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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As war grinds on in Yemen, Somali refugees eye return

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

As Yemen conditions deteriorate, Somali refugees look to return home

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

UNHCR welcomes Kenya statement, urges flexibility on timeframes for Somali refugees

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

Culture, context and mental health of Somali refugees

2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

Somali Refugees in the Horn of Africa and Yemen - November 2015

7 December 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Somalia Task Force on Yemen Situation: Weekly Inter-Agency Update #40 (29 September – 5 October 2015)

5 October 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: UNHCR Country Updates

Somalia Task Force on Yemen Situation: Weekly Inter-Agency Update #38 (15 - 21 September 2015)

21 September 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: UNHCR Country Updates

Somalia Task Force on Yemen Situation: Weekly Inter-Agency Update #37 (8 - 14 September 2015)

14 September 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: UNHCR Country Updates

Return to Somalia: No longer a refugee

7 August 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

116 Somali refugees from Kenya land in Mogadishu, spearheading new phase of voluntary repatriation

5 August 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

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