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The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)
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Helps the world's uprooted peoples
by providing them with basic necessities such as shelter, food,
water and medicine in emergencies; and seeking long term solutions,
including voluntary return to their homes or beginning afresh in
new countries. In more than five decades, the agency has helped
an estimated 50 million people restart their lives. |
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Statistics |
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Statistics track the implementation of international
refugee conventions, progress toward achieving long term solutions
for refugees and of UNHCR's assistance programmes. Covers developments
in more than 150 countries among nearly 22 million refugees, including
asylum seekers, refugees returning home and people uprooted within
their own countries |
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Geographic information and mapping |
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A library which includes country maps, satellite and aerial
images and specialized maps highlighting such subjects as the environment. |
