Abbreviation | UNHCR, HCR |
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Formation | 14 December 1950 |
Type | United Nations Programme |
Legal status | Nonprofit |
Headquarters | Geneva, Switzerland |
Head | Filippo Grandi (High Commissioner for Refugees) |
Parent organization | United Nations General Assembly United Nations Economic and Social Council |
Staff | 13,354 (in 2022[1]) |
Website | unhcr.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]