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- Access to procedures 3
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- Border controls 1
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- Effective protection 1
- Effective remedy 1
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- False documents 1
- Freedom of movement 2
- Gender discrimination 1
- Gender-based persecution 1
- Immigration Detention 3
- Internal armed conflict 1
- Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 1
- International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 1
- National security / Public order 1
- Non-refoulement 9
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- Reception 3
- Refoulement 5
- Refugee camps 1
- Refugees 4
- Rejection at border 1
- Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 4
- Right to liberty and security 1
- Right to seek asylum 2
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 1
- Safe third country 3
- Serious non-political crime 1
- Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 1
- Single procedure 3
- Social group discrimination 1
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- UNHCR mandate 1
- Urban refugees 1
- Women's rights 1
- Women-at-risk 1
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