United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

"UNHCR" redirects here. Not to be confused with UNHRC, the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
AbbreviationUNHCR, HCR
Formation14 December 1950; 73 years ago (1950-12-14)
TypeUnited Nations Programme
Legal statusNonprofit
HeadquartersGeneva, Switzerland
Head
Filippo Grandi
(High Commissioner for Refugees)
Parent organization
United Nations General Assembly
United Nations Economic and Social Council
Staff13,354 (in 2022[1])
Websiteunhcr.org
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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. It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and has 20,305 staff working in 136 countries as of December 2023.[2]

  1. ^ https://unsceb.org/hr-organization
  2. ^ Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for. "Figures at a Glance". UNHCR. Retrieved 13 November 2024.