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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.

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UNHCR legal observations on the amendments to the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Legal Status of Aliens (No XIV-506)

28 July 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe concerning the supervision of the execution of the judgment by the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Sharifi and Others v. Italy and Greece (no. 16643/09, judgment of 21 October 2014)

January 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) concerning the execution of the judgment by the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Sharifi and Others v. Italy and Greece (application no. 16643/09, judgment of 21 October 2014)

18 January 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Country of Origin Information on the Situation in the Gaza Strip, Including on Restrictions on Exit and Return

23 February 2018 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Reports

Rohingya refugees still fleeing to Bangladesh with crisis in third month

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

Thousands of Cameroonian seek refuge in Nigeria

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

Up to 15,000 newly arrived Rohingya refugees stranded at border

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

Up to 15,000 refugees stranded near Bangladesh-Myanmar border

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

Zambia faces crisis as thousands flee violence in DRC

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

DRC violence drives more than 3,300 Congolese into Zambia in a month

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

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