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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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As Syria crisis continues, UNHCR urges EU states to uphold Common Asylum System principles

16 October 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country News

UNHCR's Recommendations to Denmark for its EU Presidency

2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country Reports

Manual de Reasentamiento del ACNUR

July 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

UNHCR Resettlement Handbook, Country Chapter - Denmark

July 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country Reports

UNHCR Resettlement Handbook

July 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

Resettlement programme for refugees in Nepal passes 40,000 mark

13 December 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country News

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

November 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country Reports

Fleeing for love: asylum seekers and sexual orientation in Scandinavia

December 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Resettlement Handbook, Country Chapter: Denmark

July 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

'You will be sold like a doll': the trafficking of Latvian women into the Danish sex industry,

1 May 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

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