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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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#IBelong Campaign Update, April-June 2022

5 August 2022 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

Citizenship and Statelessness in the Member States of the Southern African Development Community

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

Bridging the Humanitarian-Development Divide for Refugee Children in Eastern Africa and the Great Lakes Region

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

Draft Overview of Pledges [Extracts Relating to Statelessness]

1 August 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

The Benefits of Belonging: Local integration options and opportunities for host countries, communities and refugees

29 July 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

'No Entry! A review of UNHCR's response to border closures in situations of mass refugee influx'

June 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

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