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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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Update on UNHCR's operations in the Middle East and North Africa

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

Compilation of recommendations relating to statelessness made during the first cycle (1st - 12th sessions) of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review

11 July 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Compilations

UNHCR Global Report 2012, Mauritania

June 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Annual Reports

Tuareg refugees in Niger herd their livestock to safety

7 May 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Revised Background Note on Gender Equality, Nationality Laws and Statelessness

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

Too Much Pain: Female Genital Mutilation & Asylum in the European Union - A Statistical Overview

February 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Statistics

UNHCR ready for possible influx of Malian refugees in neighbouring countries

16 January 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Mali Situation Map - As of 26th July 2012

26 July 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Sharp increase in Malian refugee arrivals in Mauritania, critical low funding levels

10 July 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

WFP AND UNHCR Warn of Rapidly Worsening Refugee Crisis in Hunger-Striken Sahel

22 May 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

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