Asylum and Migration
Expert staff within our Geneva-based Asylum and Migration Unit work hard to address the many challenges that we encounter, helping regional teams to implement refugee protection measures and providing legal and policy advice to UNHCR operations.
The unit also identifies emerging trends and developments which affect people of concern, and contributes to initiatives aimed at remedying existing protection gaps. It also represents UNHCR at international migration forums.
In 2016, our Asylum and Migration Unit is dedicated to protecting those involved in mixed migratory movements and at sea. It will also work to protect the displaced from trafficking, as well as other forms of violence and abuse.
Our 10-point plan outlines key areas in which action is required to address mixed migration in countries of origin, transit and destination.
Further reading on UNHCR Global website
See also
![JRS, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, November 1, 2016
Olami Simon at the football field at JRS. Olami is a refugee from Uganda.
photo: UNHCR/Petterik Wiggers](https://webarchive.archive.unhcr.org/20161230083639im_/http://www.unhcr.org/afr/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2016/12/OlamibyWeggers_resized.jpg)
Football-crazy refugee aspires to join the ranks of African superstars like Didier Drogba
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I want a better life for my children
![Yemen](https://webarchive.archive.unhcr.org/20161230083639im_/http://www.unhcr.org/afr/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2016/12/RF165315_042492.jpg)