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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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Refugee resettlement, family separation and Australia's humanitarian programme

November 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

UNHCR Resettlement Handbook, Country Chapter - Australia

September 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

Australia Atlas Map, as of June 2008

5 June 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

UNHCR Country Operations Plan 2007 - Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific

1 September 2006 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Operations Plans

UNHCR intervention before the High Court of Australia in the case of Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs v. QAAH of 2004

8 June 2006 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Bill. Submission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee

22 May 2006 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

UNHCR Country Operations Plan 2006 - Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific

1 September 2005 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Operations Plans

Australia Atlas Map

11 July 2005 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

UNHCR Resettlement Handbook, 2004 (country chapters last updated September 2009)

1 November 2004 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

UNHCR Country Operations Plan 2004 - Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the South Pacific

1 September 2003 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Operations Plans

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