Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 87 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, published in 1978.

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?

8 subjects

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

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

t;xpresses its deep satisf action at the effi.cient manner in which the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and his staff continue to accomplish their humanitarian tasks;

Requests the High Commissioner to continue to provide humanitarian assistance to refugees and displaced persons of eoncern to his Office, including those in urgent need of help in Africa. Asia and Latin America;

Further requests Unitcd Nations agencies and programmes to render the fullest possible support to the High Commissioner's humanitarian tasks;

Urges Governments to extend the necessary cooperation to thc High Commissioner in promoting permanent and speedy solutions to the problems facing

35 /bid., Supplement No. 12 (A/32/12 and Corr.1) and Supplement No. 12A (A/32/12/Add.l).

corrigendum.

:n United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 189, No. 2545, p. 150.

:18 /bid., vol. 606, No. 8791, p. 267.

his Office through voluntary repatriation and assistance in rehabilitation of returnecs, integration in countries of asylum or resettlement in other countries as needed;

Further urges Governments to facilitate the efforts of the High Commissioner in the field of international protection, ínter ali a:

By considering accession to the relevant inter- (a) national and regional instruments established for the benefit of refugees;

( b) By elaborating appropriatc procedures at the national level for the effcctivc implementation of the provisions of these instruments;

By following humanitarian principies with respect to the granting of asylum and ensuring that these are scrupulously observed, including the principie of non-refoulement of refugees;

Calls upon Governments to contribute generously towards the financing of the High Commissioner's humanitarian activities in view of the universal character of the problems facing bis Office and the need for a wider financia! support of the programmes being undertaken by him.

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36 /bid., Thirty-second Session, Third Committa, 45th meeting, paras. 1-9; and ibid., Tlzird Committee, Sessional Fascicle, 34 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-second

39 See Ofjicial Records of the General Assembly Thirtysecond Scssion, Supplement No. 12 (A/32/12 and 'Corr.l),

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