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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UNHCR is shocked and greatly saddened by a deadly attack on a Malian 'refugee hosting area' in the west of Niger yesterday, the 6th of October
7 October 2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News |
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Lake Chad Basin Regional Protection Dialogue - Abuja, Nigeria, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 - Remarks by Volker Türk, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection
8 June 2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Speeches/Statements |
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50,000 flee Boko Haram attack on Niger town
7 June 2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News |
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As violence spills over to countries neighbouring Nigeria, UNHCR calls for urgent humanitarian access to the displaced
13 February 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News |
