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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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UNHCR Syria In Focus - Issue 16 of 2015

December 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: UNHCR Country Updates

Internal Displacement and Humanitarian Situation in the Gaza Strip

November 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Yemen: Access constraints and people targeted for humanitarian assistance (as of 7 July 2015)

7 July 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Belarus: UNHCR Submission for the Universal Periodic Review – Belarus – UPR 22nd Session (2015)

May 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

UNHCR Annotated Comments to Directive 2013/33/EU of the European Parliament and Council of 26 June 2013 laying down standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (recast)

April 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

Lebanon - Akkar Governorate: Activity Info - Health Sector Mapping for Akkar Operational Area (September 2014)

10 December 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Jordan Refugee Response: 3W Reporting - Health (as of September 2014)

30 September 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Update on public health and HIV/AIDS

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

Syrian teenager's cancer treatment makes him one of the lucky few

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

Syria Refugee Response Lebanon: Beirut and Mount Lebanon Governorates, Reaching the Most Vulnerable Localities in Lebanon, Health centers PHC, SHC and MMU

14 May 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

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