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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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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

Bangladesh: Life-saving assistance needed as Rohingya influx surges

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

Surging violence in Central African Republic forces 88,000 to flee

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

UNHCR urges suspension of transfers of asylum-seekers to Hungary under EU Dublin regulation

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

UNHCR chief appeals for easing of restrictions on movement across contact line in Eastern Ukraine

25 November 2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

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