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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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Map of Sri Lanka, as of August 2002

7 September 2002 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

UNHCR Country Operations Plan 2003 - Sri Lanka

1 September 2002 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Operations Plans

UNHCR Country Operations Plan 2002 - Sri Lanka

1 July 2001 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Operations Plans

UNHCR CDR Background Paper on Refugees and Asylum Seekers from Sri Lanka

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

UNHCR intervention before the European Court of Human Rights in the case of T.I. v. the United Kingdom

4 February 2000 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

UNHCR CDR Background Paper on Sri Lanka for the European Union High Level Working Group on Asylum and Migration

18 March 1999 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

UNHCR CDR Background Paper on Refugees and Asylum Seekers from Sri Lanka

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

Memorandum of Understanding Among the Government of the Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Relating to the Repatriation of Sri Lankan Refugees and Displaced Persons

1 February 1993 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Memoranda of Understanding

Aide Mémoire, Agreement between the Government of Sri Lanka and UNHCR

3 October 1989 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Multilateral Treaties/Agreements

Letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sri Lanka, to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

1 October 1987 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Multilateral Treaties/Agreements

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