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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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Options Paper 2: Options for governments on open reception and alternatives to detention (first published 2015, revised version 2020)

2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

Vorschläge für ein verbessertes Obsorgesystem für unbegleitete Kinder und Jugendliche in Österreich

February 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

UNHCR-Analyse des Entwurfs für das Fremdenrechtsänderungsgesetz 2018

9 May 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

UNHCR-Analyse des Entwurfs für das Fremdenrechtsänderungsgesetz 2017 Teil II

18 May 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

UNHCR-Analyse des Entwurfs für das Fremdenrechtsänderungsgesetz 2017

18 January 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

UNHCR-Analyse der Regierungsvorlage für das Fremdenrechtsänderungsgesetz 2011

17 March 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

UNHCR-Analyse des Fremdenrechtsänderungsgesetzes 2011

27 January 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

UNHCR intervention before the Constitutional Court of Austria in the case G 16, 17/04 - Stellungnahme des Flüchtlingshochkommissariats der Vereinten Nationen (UNHCR) an den Verfassungsgerichtshof im Verfahren G 16, 17/04

1 April 2004 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

UNHCR intervention before the Constitutional Court of Austria in the case G 237, 238/03 – 2 - Stellungnahme des Flüchtlingshochkommissariats der Vereinten Nationen (UNHCR) an den Verfassungsgerichtshof im Verfahren G 237, 238/03 - 2

12 February 2004 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

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