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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International Protection Considerations with regard to people fleeing the Syrian Arab Republic, Update VI March 2021 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Country/Situation Specific Position Papers
Brief of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the case Adelina Solares Mijangos v William P. Barr, U.S. Attorney General 28 February 2020 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae
Brief of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the case Santos Maudillia Diaz Reynoso v. William P. Barr, U.S. Attorney General 28 February 2020 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae
Brief of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the case Monica Marroquin-Perez v. William P. Barr, U.S. Attorney General 28 February 2020 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae
Brief of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the case Gricella Nereyda Arellano Rodriguez, et al., v. William P. Barr, U.S. Attorney General 28 February 2020 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae
Brief of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the case Maria Magdalena Fuentes Reyes v. William P. Barr, U.S. Attorney General 28 February 2020 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae
BRIEF OF AMICUS CURIAE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFFS-APPELLEES in the case GRACE, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. WILLIAM P. BARR, ATTORNEY GENERAL, et al., Defendants-Appellants. 31 July 2019 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae
International Protection Considerations with Regard to People Fleeing the Republic of Iraq May 2019 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Country/Situation Specific Position Papers
UNHCR Comments on "EASO Country Guidance: Nigeria" (February 2019) May 2019 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Commentaries
Brief of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees before the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in the case O.L.B.D., petitioner, v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, respondent 11 March 2019 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

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