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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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UNHCR Submission for the Universal Periodic Review – Turkey – UPR 35th Session (2019)

July 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Desperate Journeys; Refugees and migrants entering and crossing Europe via the Mediterranean and Western Balkans routes

August 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Evaluation of UNHCR's Emergency Response to the influx of Syrian Refugees into Turkey - Full Report

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

Statistical Report on UNHCR Registered Iraqis and Non-Iraqis

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

UNHCR Global Report 2008, Turkey

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

UNHCR Background Paper on Refugees and Asylum Seekers from Turkey

1 September 2001 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Update to the UNHCR CDR Background Paper on Refugees and Asylum Seekers from Turkey

1 October 1997 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

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