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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"This is Our Home" Stateless Minorities and their Search for Citizenship
3 November 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News |
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Baking camp now home to some 25,000 mainly Kurdish refugees from Syria
3 July 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News |
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Number of Syrian Kurds fleeing to Turkey nears 140,000; humanitarian needs mount
23 September 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News |
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UNHCR steps up response as 130,000 Syrian refugees cross into Turkey
22 September 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News |
