Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1979.

What else is in this group?

36 documents · 1953–1986

Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 1986).

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1986	A/RES/40/118	Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	—	–
1985	A/RES/39/140	Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	938	–
1984	A/RES/38/121	Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	516	–
1983	A/RES/37/195	Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	—	–
1982	A/RES/36/125	Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	1,221	–

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What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Displaced Persons Humanitarian Assistance Refugee Assistance Refugee Protection Repatriation Resettlement Territorial Asylum

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

Requests the High Commissioner to intensify his efforts to assist refugees and displaced persons of concern to his Office, especially with a view to providing urgent humanitarian assistance to the large and increasing numbers in need in Africa, Asia and Latin America;

Further requests the High Commissioner to continue to promote permanent and speedy solutions, in clase co-operation with Governments, United Nations bodies and non-governmental organizations;

Commends Governments that are actively encouraging voluntary repatriation or return as a solution to the problems in their area and requests the High Commissioner to render all possible assistance in such situations in lending help in the rehabilitation of the returnees;

Urges Governments to continue to co-operate closely with the High Commissioner in efforts to achieve the self-sufficiency and, where possible, the integration of refugees in countries of asylum, and to accept for resettlement, on the widest possible basis, refugees from countries of first asylum;

Further urges Governments to continue to facilitate the work of the High Commissioner in the field

19 !bid., Thirty-t~i~d Sessi?n, Third Committee, 43rd meeting, paras. 1-13; and 1b1d., Th1rd Committee, Sessional Fascicle, corrigendurn.

2º United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 189, No. 2545 p. 150.

21 Jbid., vol. 606, No. 8791, p. 267.

of international protection by considering accessions to relevant instruments for the benefit of refugees, the effective implementation of these instruments and the scrupulous observance of humanitarian principies with respect to the granting of asylum and the non-refoulement of refugees;

Commends the increasing number of contributors to the High Commissioner's programmes and, emphasizing the need for a wider sharing of the financia! burden, calls upon Governments to provide him with necessary funds to attain the objectives of his humanitarian programme.

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