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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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From principles to action: UNHCR's Recommendations to Spain for its European Union Presidency (January - June 2010)

December 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: General Comments/Recommendations

Extracts of selected General Comments and Recommendations of the United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies relating to nationality and statelessness

November 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: General Comments/Recommendations

Moving Ahead: Ten Years after Tampere. UNHCR's Recommendations to Sweden for its European Union Presidency (July-December 2009)

June 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: General Comments/Recommendations

"A Europe Without Barriers": UNHCR's Recommendations to the Czech Republic for its European Union Presidency (January - June 2009)

December 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: General Comments/Recommendations

Building a Europe of Asylum: UNHCR's Recommendations to France for its European Union Presidency (July - December 2008)

9 June 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: General Comments/Recommendations

UNHCR's Recommendations to the Slovenian Presidency of the European Union, January - June 2008

10 December 2007 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: General Comments/Recommendations

UNHCR's Recommendations for Portugal's European Union Presidency, July-December 2007

15 June 2007 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: General Comments/Recommendations

The Hague Programme two years on: UNHCR's Recommendations to the German Presidency of the European Union (January-June 2007)

December 2006 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: General Comments/Recommendations

The Challenge of Protecting Refugees: UNHCR's Recommendations for Finland's 2006 EU Presidency

6 June 2006 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: General Comments/Recommendations

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