4.2.1. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
♤ UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly, is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people.
♤ UNHCR is governed by the UN General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).♤ It has10,966 national and international staff working in 130 countries.♤ UNRWA is funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions from UN Member States.♤ The Agency’s services encompass education, health care, relief and social services, camp infrastructure and improvement, microfinance and emergency assistance, including in times of armed conflict.♤ UNRWA Headquarters are located in Amman and in Gaza.♤ Myanmar considers them as persons who migrated to their land during the Colonial rule.♤ Myanmar state, which was ruled by the military junta until 2011, has been accused of ethnic cleansing in Rakhine by the United Nations.♤ This ethnic conflict flared up as religious violence spreading to the other provinces of Myanmar. It was finally contained in 2013 after military intervention.♤ An estimated 87,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar to Bangladesh since late 2016.