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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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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

Inclusion of Refugee Children in National Child Protection Systems: Guidance for Practitioners in East Africa

October 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Guidelines

Young People on the Move and their engagement in Peace & Security: Case Study from the North of Central America and South Sudan

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

More than one million children flee South Sudan violence

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

Updated Regional Framework for the Protection of South Sudanese and Sudanese Refugee Children

June 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Regional Reports

Regional Review of the Child Protection Response for the South Sudanese and Sudanese Refugee Children

June 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Regional Reports

UNHCR describes alarming health and nutrition situation in South Sudan camps

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

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