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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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DR Congo: Fact Sheet

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

DR Congo: Fact Sheet

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

DR Congo: Fact Sheet

31 May 2014 | 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: Democratic Republic of the Congo

September 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Statelessness & Nationality in South Africa

March 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

UNHCR Operation in Burundi Fact Sheet, 01 February 2011

1 February 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

UNHCR Algeria: Fact Sheet, August 2010

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

UNHCR Global Report 2008, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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

DRC - Treatment of rejected asylum seekers

19 April 2006 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

UNHCR CDR Background Paper on Refugees and Asylum Seekers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo

1 May 2000 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

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