United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
International
The UN Refugee Agency, mandated to protect refugees and forcibly displaced people and the source of the annual Global Trends report on global forced displacement.
About
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a UN agency established in 1950 and headquartered in Geneva. Its mandate, grounded in the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol, is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees, asylum seekers, stateless persons, and other forcibly displaced people. UNHCR provides emergency assistance, shelter, and protection services, supports asylum systems, and works toward durable solutions such as voluntary repatriation, local integration, or resettlement. It operates in numerous countries and publishes authoritative statistics on global forced displacement. The agency works in cooperation with host governments, which retain primary responsibility for the protection of people on their territory.
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