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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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UNHCR Submission for the Universal Periodic Review – Bosnia & Herzegovina – UPR 34th Session

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

From the unmixing to the remixing of peoples: UNHCR and minority returns in Bosnia

August 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Map of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Housing requirements by municipality for on-going minority returns for the year 2001

June 2001 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Returnee and Displaced Person Monitoring Framework (RMF). Inter-agency Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and the European Community Monitoring Mission (ECMM)

2 February 1999 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Memoranda of Understanding

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