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United Nations Population Information Network
A guide to population information on UN system web sites
    

 
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)
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   Helps the world's uprooted peoples by providing them with basic necessities such as shelter, food, water and medicine in emergencies; and seeking long term solutions, including voluntary return to their homes or beginning afresh in new countries. In more than five decades, the agency has helped an estimated 50 million people restart their lives.
 
Statistics
  Statistics track the implementation of international refugee conventions, progress toward achieving long term solutions for refugees and of UNHCR's assistance programmes. Covers developments in more than 150 countries among nearly 22 million refugees, including asylum seekers, refugees returning home and people uprooted within their own countries
 
Geographic information and mapping
  A library which includes country maps, satellite and aerial images and specialized maps highlighting such subjects as the environment.