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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency with the mandate to protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people. UNHCR is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people. 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. UNHCR had three years to complete its work and then disband. Today, over 68 years later, the organization is still hard at work, protecting and assisting refugees around the world.

UNHCR workforce is its backbone. The agency is present in 138 countries and as of 30 November 2018, it employs 16,765 people, of whom around nearly 90 per cent are based in the field.

UNHCR in Aruba is attached to the UNHCR Regional Office for the United States and the Caribbean in Washington, DC., USA, and supports the regional response to outflows of Venezuelans in Aruba and Curaçao. UNHCR works with governments in Caribbean countries to develop and strengthen their protections for asylum-seekers, refugees, and stateless persons, conducts refugee status determinations for asylum-seekers, and monitors and reports on the treatment of refugees and stateless persons throughout the Caribbean region.

Purpose of the organization

UNHCR in Aruba is attached to the UNHCR Regional Office for the United States and the Caribbean in Washington, DC., USA, and supports the regional response to outflows of Venezuelans in Aruba and Curaçao. UNHCR works with governments in Caribbean countries to develop and strengthen their protections for asylum-seekers, refugees, and stateless persons, conducts refugee status determinations for asylum-seekers, and monitors and reports on the treatment of refugees of all nationalities and stateless persons throughout the Caribbean region.

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Secretaris van de Kamer van Koophandel en Nüverheid Aruba, verklaart hierbij dat voor de hieronder

Contribution dues:
All services provided by UNHCR are free.