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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Options Paper 2: Options for governments on open reception and alternatives to detention (first published 2015, revised version 2020)
2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports |
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Europe's Refugee Emergency Response - Update #7, 16 - 22 October 2015
22 October 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: UNHCR Country Updates |
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Europe's Refugee Emergency Response - Update #6, 09 – 15 October 2015
15 October 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: UNHCR Country Updates |
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First group of asylum seekers relocated from Italy to Sweden
9 October 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News |
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UNHCR proposals to address current and future arrivals of asylum-seekers, refugees and migrants by sea to Europe
March 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries |
