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  2. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - Wikipedia

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    UNHCR presently has major missions in Lebanon, South Sudan, Chad/Darfur, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kenya to assist and provide services to IDPs and refugees in camps and in urban settings. UNHCR maintains a database of refugee information, ProGres, which was created during the Kosovo War in the 1990s. The database ...

  3. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Representation ...

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    The head office of UNHCR's mission in India is located in Delhi, with a field office in Chennai. The current Chief of Mission is Areti Sianni. UNHCR won the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development in 2015. UNHCR was awarded the Mother Teresa Award for Social Justice by the Harmony Foundation, Mumbai. [1] [2] [3] [4]

  4. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Representation ...

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    UNHCR informs and sensitizes the public on the problem of refugees around the world, and in Cyprus, by disseminating information to the media, and reviewing media reports on asylum seekers and refugees to ensure accuracy of facts. Public awareness can only have a positive impact on the public understanding.

  5. Third country resettlement - Wikipedia

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    The UNHCR, involved or interested governments as well as NGOs come together to discuss global and national resettlement strategies, cooperations and make agreements on resettlement. [38] In 2012 there were 26 third countries which run specific and ongoing resettlement programmes in co-operation with the UNHCR. [ 39 ]

  6. Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees - Wikipedia

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    Prior to the 1951 convention, the League of Nations' Convention relating to the International Status of Refugees, of 28 October 1933, dealt with administrative measures such as the issuance of Nansen certificates, refoulement, legal questions, labour conditions, industrial accidents, welfare and relief, education, fiscal regime and exemption from reciprocity, and provided for the creation of ...

  7. United Nations Commission on Human Rights - Wikipedia

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    Eleanor Roosevelt at United Nations for Human Rights Commission meeting in Lake Success, New York, in 1947. The UNHRC was established in 1946 by ECOSOC, and was one of the first two "Functional Commissions" set up within the early UN structure (the other being the Commission on the Status of Women).

  8. Albert Einstein German Academic Refugee Initiative Fund

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    UNHCR’s mandate is to provide protection and to find solutions for refugees, asylum seekers, stateless persons and other persons of concern. In support of this, UNHCR considers it a priority to promote and support access to education for refugees within national education systems and programmes at all levels, including higher education.

  9. Forced displacement - Wikipedia

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    Forced displacement (also forced migration or forced relocation) is an involuntary or coerced movement of a person or people away from their home or home region.The UNHCR defines 'forced displacement' as follows: displaced "as a result of persecution, conflict, generalized violence or human rights violations".