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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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Fresh fighting in Pakistan's North Waziristan displaces more than 75,000

3 July 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Fighting in Pakistan's North Waziristan region uproots more than 400,000

24 June 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Growing displacement crisis in Pakistan's North Waziristan region

24 June 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

New displacement in north-west Pakistan

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

Fresh military manoeuvres in northern Pakistan displace 25,000 people

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

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