UNHCR

UN agency to protect and support refugees

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country. It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with over 18,879 staff working in 138 countries as of 2020. Background. UNHCR was created in 1950 to address the refugee crisis that resulted from World War II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_High_Commissioner_for_Refugees

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