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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 on Russian Federation: 30th UPR session

May 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

UNHCR Submission on Russian Federation: 30th UPR session

May 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

Supplementary observations by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the case of N.D. and N.T. v Spain before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights

5 April 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Legal considerations regarding access to protection and a connection between the refugee and the third country in the context of return or transfer to safe third countries

April 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Policy/Position Papers

Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the case of A.S.N and T.K.M v The Netherlands (Appl. no. 68377/17) before the European Court of Human Rights

20 March 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the case of D.A. and others v. Poland (application no. 51246/17) before the European Court of Human Rights

5 February 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

UNHCR Submission on Barbados: 29th UPR session

January 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

UNHCR Submission on Barbados: 29th UPR session

January 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

UNHCR Submission on Botswana: 29th UPR session

January 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

UNHCR Submission on the Bahamas: 29th UPR session

January 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

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