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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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Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries: Statistical overview of asylum applications lodged in Europe and selected non-European countries 18 October 2011

Category: Reference Documents | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Thematic Reports

UNHCR Statement on the reception conditions of asylum-seekers under the Dublin procedure 1 August 2011

Category: Legal Information | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Intervention orale du HCR devant la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme Audience dans l'affaire I.M. c. France 17 May 2011

Category: Legal Information | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Observations actualisées du Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés devant la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme dans l'affaire I. M. c. France, requête no. 9152/09 31 March 2011

Category: Legal Information | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Violence against irregular migrant women: Algeria, France, Spain and Morocco April 2010

Category: Reference Documents | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Country/Situation Specific Position Papers

Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the case of Xb. v. France and Greece (Appl. No. 44989/08) October 2009

Category: Legal Information | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Observations écrites du Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés devant la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme dans l'affaire I. M. c/ France, requête no. 9152/09 September 2009

Category: Legal Information | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Les femmes en quête d'asile et réfugiées en France June 2009

Category: Reference Documents | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Female Asylum-Seekers and Refugees in France June 2009

Category: Reference Documents | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Construire une Europe de l'asile : Recommandations de l'UNHCR pour la Présidence française de l'Union européenne (juillet - décembre 2008) 9 June 2008

Category: Policy Documents | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Commentaries


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