United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [UNHCR] Law and Legal Definition
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is an agency within UN, created to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. The UNHCR primary mission is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It endeavors to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally or to resettle in a third country.
Legal Definition list
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [UNHCR]
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC)
- United Nations Environment Programme
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
- United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization
- United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime
- United Nations Participation Act
- United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER)
- United Nations Security Council
- United States
Related Legal Terms
- 1040 Form
- A Fortiori
- A Fortiori Argument
- Absent Uniformed Services Voter
- Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding [USIP]
- Acceptance for Value
- Access to Classified Information (Military)
- Accessory Before The Fact
- Accompanying the Armed Forces outside the United States
- Accompanying the Federal Government Outside the United States
