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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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UNHCR-House of Lords Briefing: Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill, Second Reading

November 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries: Statistical overview of asylum applications lodged in Europe and selected non-European countries

18 October 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Thematic Reports

Sanctuary and solidarity: urban community responses to refugees and asylum seekers on three continents

September 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Manual de Reasentamiento del ACNUR

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

UNHCR Resettlement Handbook, Country Chapter - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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

UNHCR Oral Submissions in Joined Cases of NS (C-411/10) and ME and Others (C-493/10)

28 June 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

AMM and others v. Secretary of State for the Home Department - Statement on behalf of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

6 June 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Asylum and the path to citizenship: a case study of Somalis in the United Kingdom

June 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

R (on the application of Suckrajh) v. (1) Asylum and Immigration Tribunal; (2) Secretary of State for the Home Department - Submissions on behalf of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

2 March 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

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