UNHCR - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Published purpose

This grant represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). UNHCR was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly. The agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. Activities include the provision of live-saving emergency assistance and protection activities that protect the basic human rights of displaced or stateless people and ensure that they are not returned involuntarily to a country where they could face persecution. In the longer term, the organization helps refugees find appropriate durable solutions to their plight, through voluntarily repatriation to their homeland, integration in countries of asylum or resettlment in third countries.