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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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Pressure on land, water as more refugees enter South Sudan

1 June 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country News

Some 20,000 Sudanese refugees converge at South Sudan border

1 June 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country News

UNHCR steps up aid in South Sudan camp as population tops 35,000

25 May 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country News

South Sudan: UNHCR expands aid operations in Yida as population passes 35,000

25 May 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country News

First groups of stranded South Sudanese return to Juba

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

South Kordofan refugees look back in worry

30 April 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country News

Recent fighting near Sudan-South Sudan border displaces 35,000

24 April 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country News

Recovering from the Lord's Resistance Army

30 March 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country News

LRA attacks on the rise in central Africa

30 March 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country News

Thousands of Lou Nuer tribesmen flee Jonglei into Ethiopia

13 March 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country News

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