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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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UNHCR intervention before the Court of Appeal of Ontario in the case of A.M.R.I. v. K.E.R.

21 March 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

UNHCR hails Mexico as new refugee law comes into force

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

Actualización de los Programas y Estrategias del ACNUR 2011: Las Américas

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

UNHCR welcomes breakthrough Mexico legislation on protection

10 December 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Africans and Asians attracted to Latin America as a migration route

10 November 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

World: Main Countries of Origin of New Asylum-Seekers - 2009

15 June 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

UNHCR Global Report 2009, Latin America

1 June 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Annual Reports

La protección de las personas tratadas en las Américas: Perspectiva del derecho de los refugiados

May 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Protecting Trafficked Persons in the Americas: A Refugee Law Perspective

May 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Programas y Estrategias del ACNUR 2010-2011: Las Américas

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

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