The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), also known as the UN Refugee Agency, is a United Nations programme mandated to protect and support refugees at the request of a government or the UN itself and assists in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country. Its headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland, and it is a member of the United Nations Development Group. The UNHCR has won two Nobel Peace Prizes, once in 1954 and again in 1981.

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Members-

 

High Commissioner :

• Italy

 

Goodwill ambassadors :

• Sweden

• USA

• China

• Greece

• Turkey

• Afghanistan

• Egypt

• Uruguay

• Kazakhstan

• Spain

• South Sudan

• UK

• South Korea

• Thailand