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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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Note on International Protection

8 July 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Notes on International Protection

Note on International Protection

10 July 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Notes on International Protection

Intimate Partner Violence and Asylum in the Americas: Canada, Chile, Mexico, Peru

22 November 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

UNHCR Submission for the Universal Periodic Review – Libya – UPR 36th Session (2019)

October 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

UNHCR's intervention before the Constitutional Court of Ecuador in the framework of Public Unconstitutionality Action No. 0014-19 (Ministerial Agreements and requirements for access to the territory of Venezuelans in Ecuador)

6 June 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

UNHCR Submission for the Universal Periodic Review – Bolivia – UPR 34th Session

2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Alternatives to Detention Self-study Modules: Module 6

27 November 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Training Manuals

Alternatives to Detention Self-study Modules: Module 2

November 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Training Manuals

Alternatives to Detention Self-study Modules: Module 2

November 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Training Manuals

Alternatives to Detention Self-study Modules: Module 4

November 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Training Manuals

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