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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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Serving and Protecting Together: IOM/UNHCR Framework of Engagement

30 June 2022 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Memoranda of Understanding

UNHCR Comments on the Draft Law "Improvement of Migration Legislation, amendment of provisions of Laws 4636/2019 (A' 169), 4375/2016 (A' 51), 4251/2014 (A' 80) and other Provisions"

12 June 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

COVID-19 and mixed population movements: emerging dynamics, risks and opportunities

14 May 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Options Paper 2: Options for governments on open reception and alternatives to detention (first published 2015, revised version 2020)

2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

UNHCR's Comments on the EU Proposal for a Regulation Establishing the Asylum & Migration Fund (2021 - 2027)

February 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

Joint Letter from IOM and UNHCR on the Collaboration Between the two Organizations

25 January 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Speeches/Statements

Eritrean, Guinean and Sudanese Refugees and Migrants in Italy

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

Refugees and Migrants Arriving in Spain

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

UNHCR Submission on Cambodia: 32nd UPR session

December 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

UNHCR Submission on Chile: 32nd UPR session

December 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

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