The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was created in 1950, during the aftermath of the Second World War, to help millions of Europeans who had fled or lost their homes.
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 17,300 staff working in 135 countries.
In recognition of its work, UNHCR has won two Nobel Peace Prizes, in 1954 and 1981.