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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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Syrian woman gives birth to quintuplets weeks after fleeing Iraq

20 August 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Echoes From Syria Issue 1 - June 2014

June 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees For the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report – Universal Periodic Review: Lao People's Democratic Republic

June 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Qatar: UNHCR Submission for the Universal Periodic Review – Qatar – UPR 19th Session (2014)

April 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report - Universal Periodic Review: the Republic of the Fiji Islands

March 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Compilations

UNHCR project helps ethnic minority in Fergana Valley get Kyrgyz nationality

5 December 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Co-chair Conclusions of the Regional Conference on Access to Civil Registration and Documentation in South-Eastern Europe: Progress and Remaining Challenges since the 2011 Zagreb Declaration, Podgorica, 25 October 2013

25 October 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Conference Reports

Children and Statelessness: Information Package

23 August 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

Children and Statelessness: Information Package

23 August 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report - Universal Periodic Review: Vanuatu

June 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Compilations

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