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
- 1951 Refugee Convention 1
- Access to procedures 1
- Airports 2
- Arbitrary arrest and detention 2
- Asylum policy 1
- Asylum-seekers 3
- Burden-sharing and international co-operation 2
- Cessation clauses 1
- Children's rights 2
- Combatants / Former combatants 1
- Complementary forms of protection 2
- Country of origin information (COI) 2
- Deportation / Forcible return 2
- EU Qualification Directive 2
- Effective remedy 1
- Exclusion clauses 4
- Expedited procedures 1
- Freedom of conscience 1
- Gender discrimination 1
- Gender-based persecution 1
- Illegal entry 1
- Immigration Detention 5
- Internal armed conflict 2
- Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 2
- International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 1
- International protection 3
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 1
- Mandate status 1
- Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 2
- Non-refoulement 4
- Persecution based on political opinion 2
- Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 1
- Persons not in need of international protection 1
- Pre-trial detention 1
- Reception 3
- Refoulement 3
- Refugee law 1
- Refugees 3
- Right to liberty and security 1
- Roma 2
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 3
- Safe third country 3
- Security situation 1
- Single procedure 3
- Social group persecution 3
- Somalis 1
- Temporary admission 1
- Terrorism 2
- UNHCR mandate 3
- War crimes 1
- Well-founded fear of persecution 1
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