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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Update on UNHCR's operations in the Americas
23 September 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Regional Reports |
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Matters of C.P.-G., C.-G., V.-C., C.-G., and A.-C., Amicus Curiae Brief, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees In Support of Respondents
21 November 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae |
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UNHCR intervention before the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in the case of Rivera-Barrientos v. Holder, Attorney General
18 August 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae |
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UNHCR letter to Attorney General relating to the Matter of Rodi Alvarado Peña
9 January 2004 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae |
