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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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Progress Report mid-2016. Beyond Detention: A Global Strategy to support governments to end the detention of asylum-seeker and refugees, 2014-2019 - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

August 2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Family Reunion in the United Kingdom (UK) - Briefing Paper

March 2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Beyond Detention: A Global Strategy to support governments to end the detention of asylum-seeker and refugees, 2014-2019. National Action Plan - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

December 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Untold Stories...Families in the Asylum Process

June 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Mapping Statelessness in The United Kingdom

22 November 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Excerpts of Concluding Observations and Recommendations from UN Treaty Bodies and Special Procedure Reports -Universal Periodic Review: United Kingdom

November 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report - Universal Periodic Review: United Kingdom

November 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Quality Integration Project - First Report to the Minister

August 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Quality Initiative Project - Sixth Report to the Minister

April 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Quality Initiative Project - Fifth Report to the Minister

March 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

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