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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: United Nations agency mandated to protect and support refugees
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, with over 18,879 staff working in 138 countries as of 2020.

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Ongoing War in Sudan Has Displaced Nearly 8 Million People [Video]

Ongoing War in Sudan Has Displaced Nearly 8 Million People

Ongoing War in Sudan, Has Displaced Nearly, 8 Million People. Al Jazeera reports that the United Nations has warned that eight million people have been displaced after nine months of brutal war in..

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