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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 participated in inter-agency mission to Tear Malah, Homs Governorate

8 May 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country Reports

Paper Presented by the United Nations High Commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) in collaboration with the Eugene Dupuch Law School to the Constitutional Commission of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas

4 February 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country Reports

Mapping Statelessness in Belgium

October 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country Reports

Mapping Statelessness in Belgium - Summary Report

October 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country Reports

Conflict-Induced Internally Displaced Persons in Afghanistan: Interpretation of Data as of 31 May 2012

July 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country Reports

Soumission du Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés pour la compilation établie par le Haut-Commissariat aux droits de l'Homme Examen périodique universel : France

July 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country Reports

Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees For the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report - Universal Periodic Review: Liechtenstein

July 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country Reports

Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees For the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Compilation Report - Universal Periodic Review: Burundi

July 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country Reports

Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees For the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report - Universal Periodic Review: Israel

July 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country Reports

UNHCR Global Trends 2011: A Year of Crises

18 June 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country Reports

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