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UN High Commissioner for Refugees

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. Today, a staff of around 6,689 people in 116 countries continues to help 20.8 million persons.  Website: www.unhcr.org
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Starting from refugees themselves: towards an institutional ethnography of resettlement

4 February 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

UNHCR Mission to Manus Island, Papua New Guinea 15-17 January 2013

4 February 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country Profiles

Refugee resettlement: 2012 and beyond

1 February 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

UNHCR humanitarian aid convoy reaches displaced people in northern Syria

1 February 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country News

Conflict-Induced Internal Displacement - Monthly Update

February 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country Profiles

Estonia: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees observations on the proposed amendments to the Act on Granting International Protection to Aliens

February 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

Civilians continue to flee military offensive in Mali; internal return prospects mixed

1 February 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country News

Too Much Pain: Female Genital Mutilation & Asylum in the European Union - A Statistical Overview

February 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Statistics

Civilians continue to flee military offensive in Mali; internal return prospects mixed

1 February 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country News

UNHCR Afghanistan Update on Volrep and Border Monitoring

February 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country Profiles

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