Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees logo

  • CategoryFunds and Programmes

  • HQ locationGeneva

  • Date established1 January 1951

  • Resolution319(IV) (1949) & 428(V) (1950)

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The work of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is humanitarian and non-political. Its principal functions are to provide international protection to refugees and other persons of concern, including stateless people, and to seek durable solutions for them. Protection includes preventing refoulement (the involuntary return of a refugee or a person of concern to a country where he or she may have a well-founded fear of persecution) and ensuring that host countries follow international norms in the treatment of refugees.