GENEVA - Ms. Wendy Chamberlin, a veteran U.S. Foreign Service officer and former Ambassador to Laos and Pakistan, has been appointed the new U.N. Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees. Announcing the ...

GENEVA, April 24 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency on Friday said the deaths of hundreds of refugees and migrants on the Mediterranean this year and the sea crossing of almost 40,000 people since ...

The Local Committee on Contracts shall, in respect of all contracts negotiated and/or awarded by UNHCR in relation to the purchase, rental or sale of goods and services, review and advise the ...

All UNHCR contractual arrangements are subject to the Financial Rules and Regulations of the United Nations and the Financial Rules for Voluntary Funds Administered by the High Commissioner.

This second edition of the Global Compact on Refugees Indicator Framework caps a process of technical refinement led by UNHCR, following the release of the first GCR indicator report and its ...

UNHCR has been led by eleven High Commissioners since it was first established in 1950. Together with our staff and partners, they have spent over 70 years working to help the millions forced to flee ...

UNHCR's national partners are independent, non-governmental organizations, established under the laws of the country in which they operate.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organisation dedicated to saving lives and protecting the rights of refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people.

UNHCR is promoting the systematic review of maternal deaths to learn from those situations, improve the quality of safe motherhood programming and prevent future maternal and neonatal morbidity and ...

UNHCR, Statement on Membership of Particular Social Group and the Best Interests of the Child in Asylum Procedures Issued in the context of the preliminary ruling reference to the Court of Justice of ...

UNHCR uses cash transfers to provide protection, assistance and services to vulnerable displaced persons. This allows them to meet their most pressing needs, build and support livelihoods, and ...

UNHCR is increasingly concerned about insecurity in and around camps hosting hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees in the Horn of Africa.