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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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Vulnerable refugees evacuated from Libya during visit of UNHCR head

19 June 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

As Libya crisis deepens, UNHCR chief steps up assistance

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

Bulgaria: UNHCR says asylum conditions improved, warns against transfer of vulnerable people

15 April 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UNHCR seeking access to detained asylum- seekers and refugees in Nairobi

7 April 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UNHCR calls for temporary halt to Dublin transfers of asylum-seekers back to Bulgaria

3 January 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Men, women and children suffering from harsh physical conditions and legal shortcomings at Pacific Island asylum centres: UNHCR reports

26 November 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UN refugee agency concerned over treatment of asylum-seekers in Ukraine

1 February 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

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