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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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Report of the sixty-sixth meeting of the Standing Committee (21-23 June 2016)

3 August 2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Sessional Reports

Sixty-first Session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme, Agenda item 5(a): Statement by Ms. Erika Feller Assistant High Commissioner - Protection: Rule of Law 60 Years On

6 October 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Sessional Reports

Update on UNHCR's operations in Africa - 2010

30 September 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Sessional Reports

Update on UNHCR's operations in the Middle East and North Africa - 2010

30 September 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Sessional Reports

Update on UNHCR's operations in the Americas - 2010

30 September 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Sessional Reports

Update on UNHCR's operations in Europe - 2010

30 September 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Sessional Reports

New Directions for Resettlement Policy and Practice

14 June 2001 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Sessional Reports

Resettlement as an Instrument of Protection: Traditional Problems in Achieving This Durable Solution and New Directions in the 1990s

9 July 1991 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Sessional Reports

La réinstallation en tant qu'instrument de protection : problèmes traditionnellement associés à la recherche de cette solution durable et orientations nouvelles pour les annees 90

9 July 1991 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Sessional Reports

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