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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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Bangladesh: Thousands of new arrivals assisted at transit centre, camp

20 October 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Mud and rain worsen plight for Rohingya refugees

19 September 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Bangladesh: Refugee camp capacity exhausted; thousands in makeshift shelters

8 September 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Myanmar: Administration and UNHCR Offices (2017)

21 April 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Resettlement of Myanmar Refugees from Temporary Shelters in Thailand, 31 October 2016

31 October 2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Thailand Border Operation: RTG/MOI-UNHCR Verified Refugee Population, 31 October 2016

31 October 2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps

Thailand Border Operation: RTG/MOI-UNHCR Verified Refugee Population, 31 August 2016

31 August 2016 | 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

The young and the hopeless in Bangladesh's camps

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

In Thailand, birth registration gives refugee babies a good start in life

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

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