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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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CAR violence driving more refugees into northern DRC, local communities stretched to cope

18 July 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

As DR Congo's Kasaï displacement grows, no end in sight to civilian suffering

14 July 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Campaign Update, July 2017

July 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Angola Emergency: Outflow of Congolese refugees from the Kasai region (as of 16 May 2017)

19 May 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Update: Over 20,000 DRC refugees in Angola

12 May 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

More than one million children have fled escalating violence in South Sudan

8 May 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Skin markings save farmer escaping DRC violence

5 May 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Democratic Republic of Congo: South Sudanese Refugees Situation (as of April 30, 2017)

30 April 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Angola: UNHCR airlifts aid to newly-arrived refugees from the DRC

30 April 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Democratic Republic of Congo: Central African Refugees (Situation as of April 30, 2017)

30 April 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

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