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

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

COI Note on the Treatment of Women with Children Born out of Wedlock in Syria

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

Swaziland: UNHCR Submission for the Universal Periodic Review – Swaziland – UPR 25th Session (2016)

May 2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Tajikistan: UNHCR Submission for the Universal Periodic Review – Tajikistan – UPR 25th Session (2016)

May 2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Sri Lankan Refugee Returnees in 2014

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

The Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea with a special focus on the Yemen situation - IOM and UNHCR Proposals for Strategic Action

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

Ukraine: Protection Strategy, June 2015

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

Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees For the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report - Universal Periodic Review: Kenya

January 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Kenya: Dadaab - Weekly New Registration Population Composition - 25 Oct 2010 - 29 Oct 2010

2 November 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Surviving in the city: A review of UNHCR's operation for Iraqi refugees in urban areas of Jordan, Lebanon and Syria

July 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

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