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	United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) (established December 14, 1950) protects and supports refugees at the request of a government or the United Nations and assists in their return or resettlement.
		UNHCR was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1954 and 1981.
		UNHCR thus has missions in Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Serbia and Montenegro and Ivory Coast to assist and provide services to IDPs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/UNHCR (311 words)

	UNHCR
		UNHCR operates in Poland on the basis of three documents: statute of the organisation, specifying the organisation's detailed responsibilities, Geneva Convention (to monitor the compliance with which it was established) and the contract with the Polish Government.
		UNHCR keeps providing information and knowledge to the authorities in charge of the procedure of granting the refugee status in particularly complex cases: information about the refugee's country of origin as well as studies, comments and research concerning the situation of various refugee groups or legislative procedures.
		However, UNHCR keeps telling about the refugees' issues all around the year - the organisation regularly participates in conferences, training programs and seminars concerning refugees, and raises refugees' problems on meetings where the issues of immigration, tolerance or human rights are discussed.
	www.unhcr.pl /english/newsletter/16/unhcr_in_poland.php (1153 words)

	United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - Branch Office for Romania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		UNHCR is mandated by the United Nations to lead and coordinate international action for the world-wide protection of refugees and the resolution of refugee problems.
		UNHCR's efforts are mandated by the organization's Statute and guided by the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol.
		UNHCR seeks to reduce situations of forced displacement by encouraging states and other institutions to create conditions which are conducive to the protection of human rights and the peaceful resolution of disputes.
	www.un.ro /unhcr.html (1887 words)

	United Nations in Ukraine \| United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees
		UNHCR current main role in Ukraine is to advise, assist and monitor the country's implementation of its responsibilities for the protection of refugees.
		UNHCR provides legal advice and training to parliamentarians, judges, and prosecutors, the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Justice, the State Border Guard Service, the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, the Ministry of Education as well as to numerous regional and local authorities.
		UNHCR Kyiv actively participates in the activities of the UN country team in Ukraine, on HIV/AIDS prevention and the UN theme group on prevention of human trafficking.
	www.un.kiev.ua /en/unhcr (1262 words)

	UNITED NATIONS: UNHCR Fact Sheet on Africa 1998.12.21
		UNHCR expressed concern that the Rwandans would become involved in the fighting in the DRC, which would disqualify them from international protection and be in violation of the Organization of African Unity's Refugee Convention.
		UNHCR and non-governmental organizations had to quit offices in the east of the country in June as a result of the fighting, along with around 30,000 Angolans who crossed into Shaba province in the DRC.
		UNHCR proposed that they be screened to determine the validity of their claims to refugee status.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /African_Studies/Newsletters/irinw_12211998.html (2466 words)

	OVERVIEW OF MAJOR UNHCR ACTIVITIES IN MOLDOVA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was established in the Republic of Moldova in 1997 to support the Government to introduce legislative and procedural structures required to assist persons in need of international protection pursuant to international standards.
		The main objective of UNHCR is to assist the Moldovan authorities in assuming the responsibilities resulting from signing of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the 1967 Protocol thereto and the adoption of the Law on Refugee Status.
		UNHCR then rehabilitated hospitals and educational institutions in Chisinau and in areas affected by the 1992 conflict and procured furniture for Moldovan schools in Transdniestria teaching along the curriculum approved by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Moldova.
	www.unhcr.md /article/overview.htm (819 words)

	JRS Alert: UNHCR - Pre EXCOM 01-10-2002
		UNHCR's Erica Feller said that she was hopeful that the EXCOM will endorse the agenda for protection, and also a plan of action for its implementation.
		She said that UNHCR has a responsibility to improve protection, that protection is not as good as it should be in some places, and that UNHCR are for the moment carrying out a reorganisation of the Department for International Protection (DIP).
		UNHCR shared its code of conduct, which was criticised by a number of NGOs, especially with regard to its acceptance of non-exploitative consensual relationships between UNHCR staff and refugees, but also because of the omission of the responsibility to work in close co-operation with other humanitarian actors.
	www.jesref.org /old/alerts/intl02/un21001e.htm (723 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » UNHCR Briefing Notes: UNHCR worker missing after Guinea attack, Guinea, ...
		UNHCR is gravely concerned about the fate of radio operator Joseph Loua, who has been missing since a December 6 rebel attack on the town of Gueckedou in southern Guinea.
		UNHCR is moving newly arrived Afghan refugees out of the Jalozai transit camp, southwest of Peshawar, where seven children have reportedly died during a cold spell.
		UNHCR is disappointed with the government's position, which we only know from the media since UNHCR’s request to allow the Afghans in has not been formally answered despite the fact that Tajikistan is a signatory to the 1951 refugee Convention.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/c726645a9bb72470c12569cf005b2d4d (1128 words)

	UNHCR in the UK
		UNHCR in the UK UN refugee agency Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie receives the the 2005 Global Humanitarian Action Award for her work with refugees on Tuesday in New York.
		The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is an impartial humanitarian organisation mandated by the United Nations to lead and co-ordinate international action for the world-wide protection of refugees and the resolution of refugee problems.
		UNHCR is almost entirely reliant on contributions from governments (94 per cent of total contributions) and other donors such as corporations, trusts and individuals.
	www.unhcr.org.uk (1701 words)

	UNHCR Boss Impressed
		Lubbers’ visit is part of his country tour of UNHCR programmes in Liberia to acquaint himself with the situation of persons driven out of their homes by wars and disasters and see what can be done to help find solutions.
		According to her, UNHCR’s policy of empowering local initiatives has the long-term objective of ensuring a national takeover when the services of the UN refugee agency were no longer as imperative as they are at the moment.
		Lubber, UNHCR Branch Director (Liberia), Moses Okelo, recounted the difficulties associated with moving the returnees from the border crossing point in Bo to the Way Station in Brewerville and praised the determination of his staff serve humanity, CCC, and the resilience of the returnees.
	www.theperspective.org /inquirer/unhcrboss.html (885 words)

	UNHCR starts trucking home Sierra Leone refugees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		UNHCR suspended the overland transportation of refugees to Sierra Leone in April last year as rebel forces cut the road to the frontier.
		While UNHCR is encouraging Sierra Leonean refugees to leave Liberia, thousands of Liberian refugees are flooding back spontaneously from Sierra Leone without waiting for the refugee agency to organise their repatriation..
		The UNHCR has said it will not organise an official repatriation programme for them until it is sure that UN peacekeepers have made all parts of Liberia safe for their return.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=39770 (581 words)

	UNHCR - Regional Office for Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the South Pacific
		The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is an impartial, non-political humanitarian organisation mandated by the United Nations to lead and co-ordinate international action for the world-wide protection of refugees and the resolution of refugee problems.
		With headquarters in Switzerland and branch offices in 115 countries, UNHCR has two key and closely related aims: to protect refugees and to seek ways to help them restart their lives.
		UNHCR also monitors the application of the Refugee Convention in the region and intervenes in individual cases when they raise important issues of principle, which set standards for the wider protection of refugees.
	www.unhcr.org.au (415 words)

	UNHCR Canada
		GENEVA, October 11 (UNHCR) – Urgently needed relief supplies for earthquake victims in Pakistan are being trucked from the UN refugee agency's warehouse in Peshawar to the badly affected area of Mansehra in North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
		UNHCR's emergency and logistics staff are also looking into the possibility of providing additional supplies from our global relief stockpiles further afield, including in Dubai, Jordan, Copenhagen and elsewhere.
		UNHCR has worked in Pakistan for some 25 years and is currently involved in the repatriation of more than 3.5 million Afghan refugees.
	www.unhcr.ca (624 words)

	Malaysia/Burma: Living In Limbo - The Role of UNHCR
		UNHCR has one office for the whole of Malaysia, and it is located on a hill near the national palace in a neighborhood of colonial-era homes, far from Cheras Baru and Ampang, neighborhoods in Kuala Lumpur with sizable Rohingya communities.
		According to UNHCR headquarters, the correct procedure is for a guard to ask only the applicant's name and the purpose of his or her visit.
		The UNHCR Handbook states that "[t]he applicant should receive the necessary guidance as to the procedure to be followed."230 Accordingly, in Human Rights Watch's view, the current brochure should be redrafted so that it can be easily understood by persons without expertise in refugee law and so that it describes clearly the application procedure.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2000/malaysia/maybr008-03.htm (7175 words)

	Palestinian Refugees - International Protection - UNHCR
		The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was established by the General Assembly - Resolution 319(IV) - in 1949.
		UNHCR protection activities for 1948 and 1967 Palestinian refugees are thus characterized by a limited degree of protection for a limited number of refugees based on geographical restrictions and subject to the cessation and exclusion clauses in the UNHCR Statute and the 1951 Refugee Convention.
		In 20021 the UNHCR issued a revised interpretation of the status of Palestinian refugees under the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.
	www.badil.org /Protection/UNHCR.htm (511 words)

	UNHCR Pakistan
		ISLAMABAD (UNHCR) - The number of individuals checked in the year since the UN Refugee Agency introduced state-of-the-art iris recognition tests for refugees seeking assistance to return to Afghanistan passed the 200,000 mark this week.
		This is the first field-use of such iris technology anywhere in the world and it has performed flawlessly despite the harsh conditions in the heat and dust of Pakistan's border territories with Afghanistan.
		UNHCR now operates two iris verification centres in Pakistan on a Sunday to Thursday basis - in Quetta and Peshawar - and one at Ali Zai in Pakistan's border Tribal Areas that operates only on Monday.
	www.un.org.pk /unhcr/press/Oct_10_03.htm (746 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Tanzania: UNHCR concern on forced return of Burundians
		UNHCR staff had interviewed the nine upon their arrival in Tanzania in late December and found that the two families – one of six people, the other of three – both had genuine reasons to fear persecution if they went back to Burundi.
		Despite assurances made to UNHCR that the nine would be granted refugee status in Tanzania, the Tanzanian authorities forcibly returned the two families to Burundi on 23rd January.
		While remaining grateful to Tanzania for their long standing commitment to refugees, UNHCR appeals to the authorities to ensure that all asylum seekers continue to be treated fairly in accordance with international law.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/HMYT-697R37?OpenDocument&rc=1&emid=SKAR-64FB9M (341 words)

	UNHCR in the UK - Public Information
		Furthermore, no Somali should be involuntarily returned to an area of the country from which he or she does not originate.
		In general UNHCR has no objection to countries sending failed asylum seekers back home in a humane manner, with full respect for human rights and dignity.
		In such cases UNHCR, along with other aid agencies are often unable to actually monitor returns properly, and have incomplete information about the risks to individuals, which means people are being sent back into something of a fl hole.
	www.unhcr.org.uk /press/press_releases2004/pr16Jun04.htm (227 words)

	USA for UNHCR
		GENEVA, October 10 (UNHCR) The UN refugee agency is providing tons of urgently needed family tents, blankets, stoves and other basic relief items for tens of thousands of Afghan refugees and Pakistanis made homeless by Saturday's south Asian earthquake.
		UNHCR is pleased to announce the sixth annual World Refugee Day Poster Contest, under the continued patronage of UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie. This year's theme:
		Read UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie's new Refugee Journals on Jordan and the Russian Federation, as well as her earlier ones on Kosovo and Sri Lanka.
	www.usaforunhcr.com (1673 words)

	Human-buttons of the UNHCR and the refugees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The people of the UNHCR emphasized the connection between the refugees and poverty and they drew a foggy picture of refugees, creating a strong impression about their poverty, more than the fact they were stateless refugees.
		You can ask the UNHCR in Beirut about that point via their email: lebbe@unhcr.ch and please ask them also about the amount of the money that they give for the refugees in Lebanon now.
		As I’m a Moslem and I am sure the UNHCR haven’t asked the woman’s permission to display her picture publicly like they are doing now, I am asking them to respect the Islamic religion and apologize to the woman and remove her picture immediately.
	www.angelfire.com /yt3/un4 (3198 words)

	UNHCR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		UNHCR's goal is to draw this operation to a successful close by finding a durable solution for the remaining refugees who,
		NHCR provides for the needs of the residual caseload of 21,000 refugees still residing in the camps through provision of food (in conjunction with WFP), shelter, clothing, water and sanitation facilities, various domestic needs, health care and primary education.
		lthough UNHCR is not directly involved with the Biharis (stranded Pakistanis living in Bangladesh since the liberation war) or the ongoing repatriation of the Chakmas from India to their home in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, it continues to monitor both situations.
	www.un-bd.org /un/unhcr.html (388 words)

	East Timor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The first are provided courtesy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), taken by M. Kobayashi in October and November 1999, as displaced persons returned to Dili, East Timor.
		UNHCR provided timber, nails and plastic sheeting to help returnees build shelters, such as this one.
		A UNHCR worker prepares repatriation kits which are distributed to returnees.
	www.un.org /av/photo/etimor.htm (557 words)

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		According to Farhad, this year, UNHCR initially signed agreements with partner agencies to construct the housing units for vulnerable returnees across the country.
		To fill this gap, UNHCR has planned an additional 7,000 units for the second phase this year, increasing its overall planning figure for 2004 to 27,500 shelter units, he pointed out.
		UNHCR has so far signed more than 60 contracts with international and local NGOs for this year's shelter programme, which would also target some urban areas, Farhad stressed.
	irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=42606&SelectRegion=Central_Asia&... (426 words)

	UNHCR Pakistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		ISLAMABAD, 17 November (UNHCR) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced on Monday it is temporarily closing its voluntary repatriation centres for Afghan refugees in Peshawar and Quetta until the security situation inside Afghanistan is clarified.
		A UNHCR officer, Bettina Goislard, was killed on Sunday when two men fired at close range on a clearly marked UNHCR vehicle in the center of Ghazni city, 100 km south of the Afghan capital of Kabul.
		UNHCR is temporarily suspending the assistance programme to returning Afghan refugees to ensure they do not arrive at UNHCR offices inside Afghanistan that may not be open.
	www.un.org.pk /unhcr/press/17_Nov_03.htm (192 words)

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