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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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Sri Lankan Refugee Returnees in 2014

November 2015 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Excerpts of Concluding Observations and Recommendations from UN Treaty Monitoring Bodies and UN Special Procedures' reports Universal Periodic Review: Sri Lanka

February 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Banking on solutions - A real-time evaluation of UNHCR's shelter grant programme for returning displaced people in northern Sri Lanka

March 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

UNHCR Global Report 2008, Sri Lanka

June 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Background Paper on Refugees and Asylum-Seekers from Sri Lanka

30 April 2004 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

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 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

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