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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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Ethiopia: UNHCR strengthening aid for Sudanese fleeing volatile Blue Nile State

9 September 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country News

UNHCR deeply concerned by deportation of Eritreans from Sudan

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

UNHCR seeks access to tens of thousands of displaced Sudanese

14 June 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country News

Abyei tension still driving civilians into South Sudan

7 June 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country News

Sudan's Abyei region could see further displacement, warns UNHCR

31 May 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country News

Number of Sudanese heading south ahead of referendum tops 120,000

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

Return to South Sudan ahead of the referendum

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

In the hinterland of Darfur, UNHCR helps bring the clinic to the patient

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

Some 55,000 head south to areas of origin ahead of Sudan's referendum

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

World AIDS Day: South Sudan addresses concerns of HIV-affected refugees

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

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