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- Arrival 3
- Asylum-seekers 30
- Children-at-risk 40
- Humanitarian assistance 4
- IDP camps 3
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 45
- Location of camps 115
- Migrants 1
- Nuer 2
- Older persons 1
- Persons of concern to UNHCR 2
- Refugee camps 111
- Refugee seamen 1
- Refugees 188
- Returnees 1
- Security situation 3
- Somalis 5
- Unaccompanied / Separated children 35
- Urban refugees 1
- Women's rights 3
- Women-at-risk 46
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