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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.

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UNHCR Comments on the Draft Law Amending the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on the Legal Status of Aliens (Reg. No. XIIIP- 5109)

September 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

Provisional comments by the UNHCR Regional Representation for Northern Europe relating to the Draft Amendments to the Order of the Minister of Social Security and Labour of the Republic of Lithuania on the Approval of the Description of the Procedure of Rendering Support of the Lithuanian State for Integration of Foreigners Granted Asylum in republic of Lithuania (No A1-238)

4 November 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

Provisianal comments by the UNHCR Regional Representation for Northern Europe relating to the Draft Amendments to the Lithuanian Aliens Law (No. XIIP-3291)

26 October 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

UNHCR Regional Representation for Northern Europe provisional comments on the Draft Amendments to the Lithuanian Aliens Law (XIIP-2733)

26 May 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

Key observation and recommendations by the UNHCR Regional Representation for Northern Europe relating to the provisional comments on the Draft Amendments to the Lituanian Aliens Law (No. 15-2286)

27 March 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Initial Observations on the propsed Draft Law No XIIP-1804 amending the Law on the Legal Status of Aliens in the Republic of Lithuania

1 September 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Observations on the proposed amendments to the Lithuanian Law on Legal Status of Aliens (No XIP-4566)

April 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

Observations by the UNHCR Regional Office for the Baltic and Nordic Countries on the Ministry of Internal Affairs' proposal no. 12-2398-02 introducing amendments to the Lithuanian Law on Citizenship

February 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

UNHCR's comments on the Proposal for amendment of the Lithuanian Law on Legal Status of Aliens (Draft Law No. XIP-2360(2))

October 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

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