United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Primary web addresses
http://www.unhcr.ch/
Email
webmaster@unhcr.ch
Main Address
UNHCR
C.P. 2500
1211 Geneva 2
C.P. 2500
1211 Geneva 2
Country
Switzerland
Main Telephone
+41-22-739-8111
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01.07.2008
You are living in great danger and must flee your country. Will you survive? Test yourself.
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Image: Zbigniew, a known activist in Solidarity in Poland, arrived in Chicago in 1982. "I am thankful to have escaped and to be living in the United States."
17.06.2008
There were 11.4 million refugees outside their countries and 26 million others displaced internally by conflict or persecution at the end of last year, according to new figures from the UN refugee agency.
more...Image: Colombian refugees in Panama © Noticias Aliadas / Latinamerica Press
18.03.2008
A five-year downward trend in asylum applications in industrialised countries was reversed in 2007, largely because of an increase in the number of Iraqi asylum-seekers, according to provisional statistics compiled by the UN refugee agency.
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