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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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Update on UNHCR's operations in Asia and the Pacific

24 September 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Regional Reports

Destination Delhi: A review of the implementation of UNHCR's urban refugee policy in India's capital city

13 August 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Volrep and Border Monitoring Monthly Update

August 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Compilation of recommendations relating to statelessness made during the Second Cycle (13th - 16th sessions) of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review

11 July 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Compilations

Refugees in India share daily struggles with UNHCR chief

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

New Delhi police teach refugee women how to take care of themselves

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

Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report - Universal Periodic Review: India

November 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

UNHCR distributes pioneering smart ID cards to refugees in India

17 August 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UNHCR Global Report 2010, India

June 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Annual Reports

India Atlas Map, as of June 2008

1 July 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

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