Last Updated: Friday, 17 May 2013, 14:03 GMT

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
Selected filters: Eritrea
Filter:
Showing 31-40 of 62 results
UNHCR In Somalia: Fact Sheet | January 2011

17 January 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country News

UNHCR urging Egypt to intervene to secure release of Eritreans held hostage

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

Africans and Asians attracted to Latin America as a migration route

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

UNHCR Egypt Fact Sheet (November 2010)

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

UNHCR Egypt: Fact Sheet, August 2010

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

World: Main Countries of Origin of New Asylum-Seekers - 2009

15 June 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Maps

Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the case of Hirsi and Others v. Italy

March 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Ahmed Ali and Others v. the Netherlands and Greece

February 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

A promised land for refugees? Asylum and migration in Israel

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

Written Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the Case of Sharifi and others v Italy and Greece (Application No. 16643/09)

October 2009 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Search Refworld