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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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Good Practices Paper - Action 1: Resolving Existing Major Situations of Statelessness

16 August 2022 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

UNHCR Stellungnahme zum Gesetzentwurf des Bundesministeriums des Innern, für Bau und Heimat: Viertes Gesetz zur Änderung des Staatsangehörigkeitsgesetzes und anderer Gesetze

October 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

UNHCR Comments on the Draft Law on Citizenship in the Republic of Albania

October 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

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

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

UNHCR Submission for the Universal Periodic Review – Liberia – 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

COI Note on the Acquisition of Iraqi Nationality by a Child Born Outside Iraq

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

UNHCR Submission on Ethiopia: 33rd UPR Session

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

UNHCR Submission on Nicaragua: 33rd UPR Session

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

UNHCR Submission on Brunei Darussalam: 33rd UPR Session

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

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