Home > What We Do > Protection > Legal Protection
Legal Protection
© UNHCR / G. Amarasinghe
Legal Protection
Using the 1951 Geneva Refugee Convention as its major tool, UNHCR's core mandate is to ensure the international protection of 31.7 million uprooted people worldwide. It promotes the basic human rights of refugees and that they will not be returned involuntarily to a country where they face persecution. It helps them to repatriate to their homeland when conditions permit, integrate into states of asylum or resettle in third countries. UNHCR promotes international refugee agreements, helps states establish asylum structures and acts as an international watchdog over refugee issues.
Resettlement
An alternative for those who cannot go home, made possible by UNHCR and governments.
Sub-Committee of the Whole on International Protection (SCIP)
- Report of the 21 June 1995 inter-sessional meeting of the Sub-Committee of the Whole on International Protection
- Current UNHCR activities on behalf of stateless persons
- Information note on the follow-up of the recommendations of the OAU/UNHCR symposium on refugees and forced population displacements in Africa
- Information note on UNHCR's activities for refugee law promotion, dissemination and training
- Draft report of the 21 June 1995 inter-sessional meeting of the Sub-Committee of the Whole on International Protection