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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Acronym
UNHCR
United Nations Agency

Location

Switzerland

For over 65 years, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has been protecting the rights and well-being of refugees all over the world.


We work to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution, war or disaster at home.


Since 1950, we have faced multiple crises on multiple continents, and provided vital assistance to refugeesasylum-seekersinternally displacedand stateless people, many of whom have nobody left to turn to.


We help to save lives and build better futures for millions forced from home.

Members:

Resources

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Resettlement Handbook

Reports & Research
October, 2004
Myanmar

Revised 2007...Resettlement: A Vital Instrument Of International Protection And An
Element Of Comprehensive Solutions...

Comprehensive Approach To Resolving Refugee Situations And Providing
Appropriate Durable Solutions:
2.1 Voluntary Repatriation
2.2 Local Integration
2.3 Resettlement in the Context of other Durable Solutions
Resettlement Processes Flowchart...

Refugee Protection in International Law

Reports & Research
December, 2002
Myanmar

Contents:
List of annexes page viii...
Notes on contributors and editors ix...
Foreword xv...
Preface xvii...
Acknowledgments xx...
Expert roundtables and topics under the ‘second track’ of the
Global Consultations xxi...
Table of cases xxii
Table of treaties and other international instruments xlv
List of abbreviations lv...
Part 1 Introduction:
1.1 Refugee protection in international law: an overall
perspective 3...
volker turk and frances nicholson

Land policy in post-conflict circumstances: some lessons from East Timor

Reports & Research
January, 2002
Timor-Leste

From Cambodia to Kosovo, and now East Timor, the United Nations has undertaken broad governmental functions in an effort to ensure that peace is maintained after the departure of the peacekeepers. On its face, these “peace-building” missions have a powerful logic. Brokering a peace, but leaving behind a vacuum in institutional capacity, only encourages the return of conflict after the peacekeepers leave. Providing urgent humanitarian relief, but failing to integrate it with development aid, ignores the way that development assists in preventing future humanitarian crises.

UNHCR Global Report 2000: Thailand at a glance

Reports & Research
November, 1999
Myanmar

Main Objectives
and Activities:
Ensure that the fundamentals of
international protection, particularly
the principles of asylum and nonrefoulement,
are respected and effectively
implemented; ensure that
refugee populations at the Thai-
Myanmar border are safe from
armed incursions, that the civilian
character of refugee camps is maintained
and that their protection and
assistance needs are adequately met;
promptly identify and protect individual
asylum-seekers; promote the