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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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"Ensuring protection in Europe" UNHCR's Recommendations to Lithuania for the EU Presidency

July 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: General Comments/Recommendations

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Observations on the proposed amendments to the Lithuanian Law on Legal Status of Aliens (No XIP-4566)

April 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

Observations by the UNHCR Regional Office for the Baltic and Nordic Countries on the Ministry of Internal Affairs' proposal no. 12-2398-02 introducing amendments to the Lithuanian Law on Citizenship

February 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

UNHCR's comments on the Proposal for amendment of the Lithuanian Law on Legal Status of Aliens (Draft Law No. XIP-2360(2))

October 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Commentaries

Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report - Universal Periodic Review: Lithuania

1 March 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

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