ACNUR \"Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados (ACNUR) brinda protección y asistencia a los refugiados del mundo. Según el mandato fundador del ACNUR, un refugiado es una persona que “debido a fundados temores de ser perseguida por motivos de raza, religión, nacionalidad, pertenencia a determinado grupo social u opiniones políticas, se encuentre fuera del país de su nacionalidad y no pueda o, a causa de dichos temores, no qu
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| Definition / notes: | \"UNHCRThe Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.Protecting refugees is the core mandate of UNHCR. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives 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. According to The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, A refugee is a person who \"\"owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country...\"\" Mr. António Guterres, who joined the UN High Commissioner for Refugees on June 15, 2005, is the UN refugee agency\'s 10th High Commissioner.\" |
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