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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a part of the United Nations. The purpose of this agency is to protect and support refugees when governments or the UN ask for help. The UNHCR helps refugees return home out of their voluntary will, settle locally, or move to a third country according to the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and other international law. The agency's headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland. It is a member of the United Nations Development Group chaired by United Nations Development Programme.^[1] The UNHCR has won two Nobel Peace Prizes in 1954 and in 1981.^[2]

List of High Commissioners[change | change source]

#	High Commissioners	Nationality	Time
–	Fridtjof Nansen	Norway	1922–1927 League of Nations High Commissioner
1	Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart	Netherlands	1951–1956
2	Auguste R. Lindt	Switzerland	1956–1960
3	Félix Schnyder	Switzerland	1960–1965
4	Sadruddin Aga Khan	Iran	1965–1977
5	Poul Hartling	Denmark	1978–1985
6	Jean-Pierre Hocké	Switzerland	1986–1989
7	Thorvald Stoltenberg	Norway	1990
8	Sadako Ogata	Japan	1990–2000
9	Ruud Lubbers	Netherlands	2001–2005 (Resign due to internal investigation)
10	António Guterres	Portugal	2005–2015
11	Filippo Grandi	Italy	2016–present

Related pages[change | change source]

Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees

References[change | change source]

↑ "UNDG Members". Archived from the original on 2011-05-11. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
↑ "Nobel Laureates Facts – Organizations". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2009-10-13.

[1] "UNDG Members". Archived from the original on 2011-05-11. Retrieved 2011-11-22.

[NobelFactsorg-2] "Nobel Laureates Facts – Organizations". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2009-10-13.

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v t e International human rights organisations and institutions
Types	Human rights group Human rights commission Human rights institutions Truth and reconciliation commission
International institutions	Committee on the Rights of the Child Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities International Criminal Court Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights UN Human Rights Committee UN Human Rights Council UN Security Council
Regional bodies	African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights African Court of Justice European Court of Human Rights European Committee for the Prevention of Torture Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Multi-lateral bodies	European Union Council of Europe Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) Organisation of American States (OAS) UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) International Labour Organization (ILO) World Health Organization (WHO) UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) UN Population Fund (UNFPA) UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) UN Development Programme (UNDP) Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)
Major NGOs	Amnesty International FIDH Human Rights Watch Emergency NGO Human Rights First
ICRC – organization with special status based on Geneva Conventions	International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)