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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 steps up measures to rein in Hepatitis E among South Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia

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

Food shortages in South Sudan refugee camps stoke mounting anger

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

Uganda: UNHCR working to contain spread of measles among South Sudanese refugees

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

Hepatitis E affects thousands, kills 111 in South Sudan refugee camps

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

Living hand to mouth: protection funding and coordination in South Sudan

August 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

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