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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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Introduction by George Okoth-Obbo, Director, Division of International Protection Services (DIPS) of EC/59/SC/CRP.14, "Report on Age, Gender and Diversity Mainstreaming"

25 June 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Speeches/Statements

Statement by Vincent Cochetel, Deputy Director, Division of International Protection Services (DIPS). Progress Report on Resettlement (UNHCR Standing Committee, 42nd Session)

25 June 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Speeches/Statements

Statement by Erika Feller, Assistant High Commissioner - Protection

24 June 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Speeches/Statements

Introductory Statement by George Okoth-Obbo, Director, Division of International Protection Services, for Agenda item 3: International Protection

24 June 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Speeches/Statements

Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Panel on the 10th Anniversary of the Guiding Principles of Internal Displacement - 10 April 2008: Statement of Erika Feller, Assistant High Commissioner - Protection, UNHCR

10 April 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Speeches/Statements

Remarks by Erika Feller, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, at the launch of UNHCR Handbook for the Protection of Women and Girls

6 March 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Speeches/Statements

Statement by UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Ms. Erika Feller, at the General Segment of the 7th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council

5 March 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Speeches/Statements

Oral Report on the First Meeting of the High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges, 11 and 12 December 2007, by George Okoth-Obbo, Director, Division of International Protection Services

3 March 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Speeches/Statements

"The Work of the Refugee Protection Division in the International Context", Statement by Erika Feller, Assistant High Commissioner - Protection, UNHCR, at the Immigration and Refugee Board, Refugee Protection Division National Training Seminar (Toronto, Canada, January 28-30, 2008)

28 January 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Speeches/Statements

"Terrorism as a Global Phenomenon", UNHCR presentation to the Joint Seminar of the Strategic Committee on Immigration, Frontiers and Asylum (SCIFA) and Committee on Article 36 (CATS)

17 January 2008 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Speeches/Statements

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