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  2. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Australia for UNHCR - Wikipedia

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    Australia for UNHCR is an Australian charity that raises funds and support for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the UN's Refugee Agency. It was established on 4 July 2000. It was established on 4 July 2000.

  4. List of countries by charitable donation as percentage of GDP

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    The following list of countries by charitable donation shows the total charitable donations from individuals within the nation, as a percentage of the nation's GDP. The figures were published in February 2016 by the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) in its report titled Gross Domestic Philanthropy . [ 1 ]

  5. International Refugee Organization - Wikipedia

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    In 1952, operations of the IRO ceased, and it was replaced by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The Constitution of the International Refugee Organization, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 15 December 1946, is the founding document of the IRO. The constitution specified the organization's ...

  6. 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 ]

  7. Humanitarian-Development Nexus - Wikipedia

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    [6] [5] At the summit, it was stated by government donors that collaboration between humanitarian agencies, and international development actors, should be encouraged and programs that work towards addressing humanitarian needs and longer-term development goals should be funded.

  8. Refugee employment - Wikipedia

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    Article 17 requires that countries should give refugees the same rights to employment as citizens and exempt refugees from restrictions applied to foreigners if they fulfill one of the following conditions: He has completed three years’ residence in the country; He has a spouse possessing the nationality of the country of residence.

  9. List of Nansen Refugee Award recipients - Wikipedia

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    The award was established by UNHCR the organizations first High Commissioner, Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart 1954 as a tribute to Fridtjof Nansen. [2] Fridtjof Nansen was a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, explorer, and League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [ 3 ] and the award was established in honour of his work to support refugees. [ 4 ]