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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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Definition: Refugee-led Organization (RLO)

January 2023 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

Handbook for Interpreters in Asylum Procedures

2022 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

Need to Know Guidance: Working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer Persons in Forced Displacement

2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

UNHCR RSD Procedural Standards Unit 1: Introduction

26 August 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

UNHCR RSD Procedural Standards Unit 2.4: Office Security

26 August 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

UNHCR RSD Procedural Standards Unit 10: Procedures for Cancellation and Revocation of Refugee Status

26 August 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

UNHCR RSD Procedural Standards Unit 11: Procedures for Cessation of Refugee Status

26 August 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

UNHCR RSD Procedural Standards Unit 3: Reception and Registration for Mandate RSD

26 August 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

UNHCR RSD Procedural Standards Unit 4: Adjudication of Refugee Status Claims

26 August 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

UNHCR RSD Procedural Standards Unit 6: Notification of RSD Decisions

26 August 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

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