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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Insecurity, drought and lack of livelihoods force 130,000 to flee homes in Somalia
16 September 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News |
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Gaps in Geneva, gaps on the ground: case studies of Somalis displaced to Kenya and Egypt during the 2011 drought
13 December 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers |
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Farming prospects prompt some refugees to head back to Somalia temporarily
3 February 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News |
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Map of Somalia - New Displacement in January, from 1 - 31 January, 2008
8 February 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Maps |
