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- 1951 Refugee Convention 1
- Asylum-seekers 2
- Citizenship / Nationality law 10
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 1
- Gender discrimination 12
- Human Rights Council 1
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 1
- Naturalization 1
- Refugee / Asylum law 1
- Refugees 2
- Right to a nationality 3
- Right to registration at birth 1
- Rights of non-citizens 1
- Statelessness 15
- Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 3
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