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About UNHCR
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14, 1950, by the United Nations General Assembly. The agency is mandated to lead and coordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally, or resettle in a third country. It also has the mandate to help stateless people.

UNHCR now has more than 17,324 personnel in 123 countries continues to help and protect millions of refugees, returnees, internally displaced and stateless people. We work in a total of 135 countries and our budget, which in its first year was US$300,000, grew to US$8.6 billion in 2019.  During our lifetime, we have helped well over 50 million refugees to successfully restart their lives.