II.1. UNHCR can leverage the fact that NHRIs are an independent and trusted institution and a bridge between rights-holders and the State 20 II.2. Services and programmes implemented by NHRIs for the benefit of persons under UNHCR's mandate are part of NHRIs' mandate 21 II.3. UNHCR can contribute to and benefit from NHRIs' broad competences bodies that may cover certain human rights issues as part of their mandate, e.g. National Commissions on Women's Affairs and Family and Demographic Policies under the President, Commissions on minors within the structure of the Interior Ministry, etc. 11. UNHCR also notes presence of an active although not sufficiently represented civil society. other languages or adapted to meet local needs without the prior permission of UNHCR, provided that all parts are distributed free of charge and UNHCR is acknowledged. Please send copies of any adaptation or translation into other languages to: Resettlement Service, Division of International Protection. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees The UNHCR WASH Manual (7th Edition, February 2020) is the result of an open and collaborative process with WASH actors who have active programmes supporting refugees. It has been written primarily for use by UNHCR staff, WASH actors, national governmental authorities, emergency response coordinating bodies, contingency planners, programme this evolution and in line with its mandate, UNHCR has issued a series of legal positions on specific questions of international refugee law entitled "Guidelines on International Protection".1 Included in this edition are the thirteen Guidelines developed by the Office between 2002 and 2017. They com‑ United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) mandate is to lead and coordinate international action to protect refugees and to resolve the refugee problems worldwide. Its main purpose is to safeguard the rights and wellbeing of refugees. It aims to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and to find safe 6. UNHCR recognition of the applicant as a mandate refugee and any opinion or information that it provides will form part of the information available to the decision-maker. The decision-maker may not always know the basis on which the claim was accepted by the UNHCR or what evidence was in its possession when it did so. 2 In addition to 2,796,180 persons under UNHCR's statelessness mandate in 2017, 932,200 stateless refugees in Bangladesh and 125,600 stateless IDPs in Myanmar are already accounted for under the lines "refugees" and "IDPs" respectively. 3 Includes people in IDP-like situations. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Case Postale 2500 CH-1211 Geneva 2 Switzerland Confidential fax: +41 22 739 7381 Confidential telephone: +41 22 739 8957 or 8794 a commitment is needed to always conduct oneself with the agency's mandate as the highest priority. The question that a UNHCR staff member continually must ask is Persons under UNHCR's statelessness mandate 2 3,851 3,745 3,663 3,546 Internally displaced people )IDPs( 3 41,425 42,174 39,095 36,288 Returned IDPs ) 2021 of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees", which was adopted at the 70th session of the Executive Committee. Information at the The IRO was replaced by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in 1951. By that time, international protection was firmly enshrined as the new organization's principal raison d'être. The Statute of UNHCR,