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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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Myanmar: Displaced Population per Village Tract (POO-Camp Profile Round 3), as of 22 Jun 2015

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

Kachin State General Map

10 March 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Returnee Settlements in Mon State and Tanintharyi Region

5 March 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

UNHCR consternation at killing of two IDPs in Myanmar's Rakhine state

28 June 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UNHCR airlifts 3,500 tents for forcibly displaced in Myanmar

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

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