UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly. The agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally or to resettle in a third country.
In more than five decades, the agency has helped an estimated 50 million people restart their lives. Today, a staff of around 7,092 people in 124 countries continues to help 35.8 million persons.
Website: www.unhcr.org
- Annual Protection Reports 1
- Annual Reports 522
- Bilateral Treaties/Agreements 4
- Case Law Compilations/Analyses 19
- Chronologies of Events 88
- Commentaries 210
- Comments on National Legislation 88
- Compilations 119
- Concluding Observations 8
- Conclusions on International Protection 231
- Conference Reports 80
- Country Briefing Folders 14
- Country News 1,329
- Country Operations Plans 455
- Country Profiles 28
- Country Reports 356
- Country/Situation Specific Position Papers 252
- Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae 135
- Decisions 2
- General Comments/Recommendations 23
- Handbooks/Manuals 186
- International Legal Instruments 4
- Legal Articles/Analyses/Commentaries 345
- Legislative History / Travaux Préparatoires 15
- Maps 1,457
- Memoranda 2
- Memoranda of Understanding 40
- Mission Reports 1
- Multilateral Treaties/Agreements 112
- Notes on International Protection 33
- Operational Guidelines 20
- Policy/Position Papers 167
- Query Responses 1
- Regional Reports 57
- Research, Background and Discussion Papers 543
- Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations 18
- Sessional Reports 242
- Speeches/Statements 242
- Statistics 4
- Thematic Guidelines 91
- Thematic Reports 174
- Training Manuals 41
- UNHCR Country Updates 446
- Afghanistan 370
- Albania 18
- Algeria 46
- American Samoa 1
- Andorra 2
- Angola 46
- Anguilla 3
- Antigua and Barbuda 9
- Argentina 36
- Armenia 25
- Aruba 4
- Australia 43
- Austria 78
- Azerbaijan 22
- Bahamas 14
- Bahrain 11
- Bangladesh 48
- Barbados 12
- Belarus 26
- Belgium 32
- Belize 13
- Benin 33
- Bermuda 5
- Bhutan 9
- Bolivia 16
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 51
- Botswana 9
- Brazil 28
- British Virgin Islands 7
- Brunei Darussalam 9
- Bulgaria 44
- Burkina Faso 55
- Burundi 145
- Cambodia 17
- Cameroon 105
- Canada 50
- Cape Verde 4
- Cayman Islands 6
- Central African Republic 227
- Chad 162
- Chile 16
- China 25
- Colombia 93
- Comoros 4
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the 292
- Congo, Republic of the 68
- Cook Islands 1
- Costa Rica 32
- Croatia 41
- Cuba 15
- Cyprus 10
- Czech Republic 24
- Côte d'Ivoire 123
- Denmark 23
- Djibouti 65
- Dominica 9
- Dominican Republic 16
- Ecuador 44
- Egypt 102
- El Salvador 24
- Equatorial Guinea 2
- Eritrea 114
- Estonia 7
- Ethiopia 281
- Falkland Islands 1
- Fiji 2
- Finland 17
- France 53
- French Guiana 4
- Gabon 13
- Gambia 28
- Georgia 33
- Germany 46
- Ghana 43
- Greece 79
- Grenada 9
- Guadeloupe 6
- Guatemala 26
- Guinea 51
- Guinea-Bissau 19
- Guyana 11
- Haiti 26
- Honduras 24
- Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of China) 1
- Hungary 58
- Iceland 8
- India 20
- Indonesia 32
- Iran, Islamic Republic of 136
- Iraq 411
- Ireland 26
- Israel 14
- Italy 54
- Jamaica 12
- Japan 30
- Jordan 151
- Kazakhstan 14
- Kenya 191
- Kiribati 2
- Korea, Democratic People's Republic of 4
- Korea, Republic of 14
- Kuwait 12
- Kyrgyzstan 36
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 9
- Latvia 6
- Lebanon 323
- Lesotho 6
- Liberia 104
- Libya 129
- Liechtenstein 3
- Lithuania 5
- Luxembourg 10
- Madagascar 7
- Malawi 15
- Malaysia 32
- Maldives 2
- Mali 86
- Malta 18
- Marshall Islands 1
- Martinique 5
- Mauritania 53
- Mauritius 1
- Mexico 39
- Micronesia, Federated States of 2
- Moldova, Republic of 25
- Monaco 1
- Mongolia 5
- Montenegro 37
- Montserrat 2
- Morocco 21
- Mozambique 16
- Myanmar 105
- Namibia 15
- Nauru 5
- Nepal 29
- Netherlands 28
- Netherlands Antilles 4
- New Zealand 12
- Nicaragua 15
- Niger 76
- Nigeria 99
- Norway 18
- Oman 7
- Pakistan 120
- Palau 2
- Palestine, State of 18
- Panama 26
- Papua New Guinea 14
- Paraguay 16
- Peru 17
- Philippines 32
- Poland 38
- Portugal 10
- Puerto Rico 3
- Qatar 8
- Romania 44
- Russian Federation 59
- Rwanda 95
- Saint Kitts and Nevis 8
- Saint Lucia 9
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 7
- Samoa 2
- San Marino 1
- Sao Tome and Principe 1
- Saudi Arabia 15
- Senegal 28
- Serbia 91
- Seychelles 1
- Sierra Leone 45
- Slovakia 29
- Slovenia 13
- Solomon Islands 3
- Somalia 424
- South Africa 31
- South Sudan 354
- Spain 19
- Sri Lanka 56
- Sudan 248
- Suriname 9
- Swaziland 9
- Sweden 39
- Switzerland 22
- Syrian Arab Republic 660
- Tajikistan 23
- Tanzania, United Republic of 113
- Thailand 58
- The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 33
- Timor-Leste (East Timor) 12
- Togo 35
- Tonga 2
- Trinidad and Tobago 6
- Tunisia 57
- Turkey 195
- Turkmenistan 19
- Turks and Caicos Islands 5
- Tuvalu 2
- U.S. Virgin Islands 4
- Uganda 244
- Ukraine 178
- United Arab Emirates 10
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 70
- United States of America 87
- Uruguay 21
- Uzbekistan 17
- Vanuatu 2
- Venezuela 23
- Viet Nam 18
- Western Sahara Territory 15
- Yemen 168
- Zambia 38
- Zimbabwe 22
- 1951 Refugee Convention 83
- 1969 OAU Convention 14
- 1984 Cartagena Declaration 2
- Abduction 10
- Access to procedures 84
- Access to water 50
- Accession 3
- Acholi 1
- Administrative courts 1
- Admission quotas 1
- Adoption 2
- Afars 1
- Africans 4
- Afro-Colombians 1
- Age discrimination 8
- Agents of persecution 2
- Ahmadis 1
- Airports 3
- Albanians 1
- Albinism/Persons with Albinism 13
- Albinism/Persons with Albinism 1
- Aliens 3
- Appeal / Right to appeal 2
- Arabs 1
- Arbitrary arrest and detention 32
- Armed attacks on camps 16
- Armed forces / Military 19
- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 54
- Armenian 6
- Arrival 10
- Ashkaelian 2
- Asylum policy 109
- Asylum-migration nexus 164
- Asylum-seekers 876
- Azeri 1
- Baha'i 2
- Bantu 1
- Bengalis 1
- Berber 4
- Bihari 1
- Blood feuds 1
- Border conflict 22
- Border controls 39
- Border crossers 62
- Buddhist 2
- Burden of proof 10
- Burden-sharing and international co-operation 83
- Camp management 21
- Cancellation 5
- Capacity building of state institutions 74
- Carrier sanctions 1
- Ceasefire 6
- Cessation clauses 55
- Changes of circumstances in home country 12
- Chechen 6
- Child labour 8
- Child prostitution 3
- Child soldiers 31
- Children's rights 105
- Children-at-risk 250
- Chinese 1
- Christian 19
- Citizenship / Nationality law 27
- Civil and political rights 3
- Civil rights legislation 1
- Civil war 10
- Civilian character of asylum 16
- Climate change (including environmental migrants) 42
- Combatants / Former combatants 10
- Communal conflict / Social conflict 26
- Community development 29
- Complementary forms of protection 61
- Confidentiality 2
- Conflict prevention 5
- Conflict resolution 41
- Conflict situation 122
- Contemporary forms of slavery 4
- Convention Plus 42
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 1
- Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 2
- Convention refugee 3
- Corruption 4
- Country of origin information (COI) 22
- Credibility assessment 15
- Crime prevention 2
- Crimes against humanity 23
- Crimes against peace 1
- Criminal justice 13
- Croats 1
- Cumulative grounds of persecution 1
- Customary law 1
- Czechs 2
- Darfuri 1
- Death in custody 1
- Decision on admissibility 3
- Demobilization / Disarmament 1
- Democracy 4
- Denial of nationality 4
- Denial of refugee status 3
- Deportation / Forcible return 62
- Diplomatic assurances 2
- Disappeared persons 6
- Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 25
- Domestic violence 19
- Drug trafficking 3
- EU Qualification Directive 45
- Economic, social and cultural rights 14
- Effective protection 20
- Effective remedy 17
- Egyptians 3
- Elections 10
- Entry / Exit 5
- Equal opportunities 5
- Equality before the law 10
- Eritreans 13
- Ethiopians 10
- Ethnic cleansing 1
- Evacuation 4
- Evangelical 1
- Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 11
- Exclusion clauses 50
- Exiles 10
- Expedited procedures 6
- Expulsion 17
- Extended definition 15
- Extradition 19
- Extrajudicial executions 5
- Extreme poverty 10
- Family reunification 45
- Female genital mutilation (FGM) 17
- Flight by land, air or sea 35
- Forced labour 4
- Forced marriage 8
- Forced relocation 1
- Foreign occupation 2
- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 21
- Freedom of assembly and association 5
- Freedom of conscience 2
- Freedom of expression 16
- Freedom of information 6
- Freedom of movement 66
- Freedom of religion 8
- Freedom of speech 7
- Fulani 1
- Gang related violence 6
- Gender discrimination 61
- Gender mainstreaming 30
- Gender-based persecution 74
- Generalized violence 8
- Genocide 2
- Gio 1
- Global Consultations on international protection 102
- Good governance 5
- Good offices 2
- Gross, systematic and large-scale 1
- Grounds for persecution 6
- Group / Prima facie determination 4
- HIV and AIDS 58
- Habitual residence 2
- Haitians 2
- Harmful traditional practices 17
- Hazara 4
- High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges 36
- High Commissioner's Forum 33
- Hindu 3
- Hmong 2
- Honour killings 1
- Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 28
- Human Rights Council 82
- Human rights activists 12
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 75
- Human rights law 24
- Human rights monitors 2
- Humanitarian assistance 764
- Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 3
- IDP camps 150
- Illegal entry 19
- Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 11
- Immigrants 11
- Immigration Detention 81
- Immigration control after entry 2
- Immigration law 19
- Impunity 3
- Inclusion clauses 5
- Income-generating projects 1
- Independence of judiciary 2
- Indigenous persons 13
- Integration 172
- Internal armed conflict 130
- Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 44
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 1,630
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 1
- International armed conflict 12
- International courts and tribunals 1
- International criminal law 7
- International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 15
- International protection 285
- Involuntary repatriation 7
- Jehovah's Witness 4
- Jew 1
- Jurisdiction 2
- Juvenile justice system 1
- Kachin 6
- Karen 4
- Kazakhs 1
- Koreans 1
- Kosovar 6
- Kuchi 1
- Kunama 1
- Kurd 8
- Labour law 2
- Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 6
- Law of the sea 5
- Laws relating to religion 6
- Legal representation / Legal aid 19
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 42
- Livelihoods 71
- Location of camps 208
- Malinke / Mandingo 2
- Mandate status 6
- Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 4
- Mass exodus 21
- Maternal and child health care 6
- Mental harm 1
- Mental health 18
- Mentally disadvantaged persons 4
- Migrant rights 20
- Migrants 170
- Military operations 22
- Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 26
- Minorities 32
- Minority rights 6
- Mongols 1
- Montagnards 1
- Multiple nationality 3
- Muslim 25
- National security / Public order 6
- Naturalization 16
- Non-refoulement 125
- Non-self-governing territories 1
- Non-state agents of persecution 22
- Nuer 4
- Older persons 57
- One-child policy / Family planning 1
- Opposition 2
- Orderly return 13
- Palestinian 21
- Pashtun 2
- Passports 2
- Pastoralists 1
- Peace agreements 13
- Peace process 9
- Peacekeeping 13
- Pentecostal 1
- Persecution based on nationality 2
- Persecution based on political opinion 24
- Persecution of family members 6
- Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 29
- Persons not in need of international protection 68
- Persons of concern to UNHCR 295
- Persons with disabilities 71
- Piracy 2
- Police 5
- Political asylum 1
- Political groups 2
- Political parties 3
- Political situation 41
- Polygamy 1
- Population transfers 6
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 2
- Pre-entry procedures 4
- Pre-trial detention 10
- Prevention of discrimination 13
- Prison or detention conditions 25
- Proof of nationality 4
- Property restitution 12
- Prosecution vs persecution 3
- Prostitution / Commercial sex work 9
- Protection of camps 15
- Protection of civilian persons in time of war 45
- Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 1
- Public health 41
- Racial / Ethnic persecution 17
- Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 8
- Readmission 2
- Reception 72
- Reconciliation 15
- Referendum 6
- Refoulement 48
- Refugee / Asylum law 132
- Refugee camps 484
- Refugee identity documents 24
- Refugee seamen 115
- Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 160
- Refugee travel documents / CTDs 4
- Refugees 3,009
- Regional instruments 21
- Registration 63
- Reintegration 31
- Rejected asylum-seekers 15
- Rejection at border 6
- Religious discrimination 10
- Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 23
- Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 110
- Resettlement 333
- Residence permits / Residency 14
- Return conditions 105
- Returnees 317
- Right to a nationality 59
- Right to development 24
- Right to education 85
- Right to employment 21
- Right to family life 28
- Right to food 21
- Right to health 29
- Right to justice 2
- Right to liberty and security 10
- Right to life 3
- Right to registration at birth 43
- Right to return 11
- Right to seek asylum 41
- Right to self-determination 3
- Rights of non-citizens 11
- Rohingya (Arakanese) 29
- Roma 21
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 40
- Rwandans 2
- SGBV 160
- Sabean Mandean 2
- Safe country of origin 26
- Safe third country 63
- Saharawis 9
- Sami 1
- Secondary movement 67
- Security forces 8
- Security situation 269
- Serb 4
- Serious non-political crime 4
- Sexual and reproductive rights 16
- Shabak 7
- Sharia law 3
- Shia 8
- Sikh 2
- Single heads of household 1
- Single procedure 24
- Sinhalese 3
- Smuggling of persons 59
- Social group discrimination 16
- Social group persecution 48
- Somalis 93
- Spontaneous return 14
- Standard of proof 5
- State of emergency 8
- State protection 13
- Statelessness 407
- Statelessness Determination Procedures 11
- Stowaways 10
- Sufi 1
- Sunni 4
- Sur place persecution 2
- Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 17
- Suspensive effect 2
- Tajik 2
- Tamil 6
- Temporary admission 9
- Temporary protection 26
- Territorial asylum 8
- Terrorism 31
- Torture 5
- Trafficking in persons 121
- Transgression of social / cultural norms 3
- Transit 7
- Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 5
- Travel documents 7
- Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 85
- Tuareg 2
- Turkmen 10
- UNHCR mandate 57
- Ukrainians 1
- Unaccompanied / Separated children 125
- Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 248
- Urban refugees 82
- Uzbek 5
- Visas 4
- Voluntary repatriation 278
- War crimes 6
- Well-founded fear of persecution 15
- Women's rights 52
- Women-at-risk 156
- Work permits 1
- Yazīdī 16
- Zoroastrian 2
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