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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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Age, Gender and Diversity - UNHCR Accountability Report 2014

15 July 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Annual Reports

UNHCR warns of growing asylum crisis in Greece and the Western Balkans amid arrivals of refugees from war

10 July 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Risks growing for increasing numbers of refugees and migrants crossing the Western Balkans

12 June 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Somalia Refugees in the Horn of Africa and Yemen (June 2015)

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

Kenya: Registered refugees and asylum-seekers (as of 01 June 2015)

1 June 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Burns victims receive treatment in Sicilian hospital

20 April 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Kenya: Registered refugees and asylum-seekers (as of 01 April 2015)

16 April 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Somalia Refugees in the Horn of Africa and Yemen (March 2015)

8 April 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Kenya: Registered refugees and asylum-seekers (as of 01 January 2014)

13 January 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Ethiopia refugee population figure as of 31 December 2015

12 January 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

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