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	27 March 2012
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees \| Document type: Regional Reports
	East & Horn of Africa Update: Somali Displacement Crisis at a glance	3 August 2011
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees \| Document type: Regional Reports
	East & Horn of Africa Update: Somali Displacement Crisis at a glance	25 July 2011
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees \| Document type: Regional Reports
	Statelessness in Central Asia	May 2011
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees \| Document type: Regional Reports
	Statelessness in Central Asia	May 2011
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees \| Document type: Regional Reports
	Good Practices: Addressing Statelessness in South East Asia	5 February 2011
Category: Reference Documents \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees \| Document type: Regional Reports
	In harms way: the irregular movement of migrants to Southern Africa from the Horn and Great Lakes regions	January 2011
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees \| Document type: Regional Reports
	Protecting Refugees and Other Persons on the Move in the ECOWAS Space	January 2011
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees \| Document type: Regional Reports