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 533
- Bilateral Treaties/Agreements 4
- Case Law Compilations/Analyses 19
- Chronologies of Events 88
- Commentaries 244
- Comments on National Legislation 147
- Compilations 133
- Concluding Observations 8
- Conclusions on International Protection 240
- Conference Reports 93
- Country Briefing Folders 14
- Country News 1,619
- Country Operations Plans 455
- Country Profiles 28
- Country Reports 440
- Country/Situation Specific Position Papers 263
- Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae 150
- Decisions 2
- General Comments/Recommendations 26
- Handbooks/Manuals 219
- International Legal Instruments 4
- Legal Articles/Analyses/Commentaries 355
- Legislative History / Travaux Préparatoires 15
- Maps 1,943
- Memoranda 2
- Memoranda of Understanding 45
- Mission Reports 1
- Multilateral Treaties/Agreements 112
- National Legislation Compilations/Analyses 1
- Notes on International Protection 34
- Operational Guidelines 21
- Policy/Position Papers 172
- Presidential Statements 1
- Query Responses 1
- Regional Reports 80
- Research, Background and Discussion Papers 552
- Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations 20
- Sessional Reports 243
- Speeches/Statements 261
- Statistics 4
- Thematic Guidelines 93
- Thematic Reports 218
- Training Manuals 41
- UNHCR Country Updates 773
- Afghanistan 445
- Albania 18
- Algeria 52
- American Samoa 1
- Andorra 2
- Angola 51
- Anguilla 3
- Antigua and Barbuda 9
- Argentina 41
- Armenia 27
- Aruba 4
- Australia 50
- Austria 131
- Azerbaijan 22
- Bahamas 15
- Bahrain 13
- Bangladesh 54
- Barbados 13
- Belarus 28
- Belgium 37
- Belize 20
- Benin 34
- Bermuda 5
- Bhutan 10
- Bolivia 17
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 51
- Botswana 9
- Brazil 33
- British Virgin Islands 7
- Brunei Darussalam 10
- Bulgaria 59
- Burkina Faso 61
- Burundi 188
- Cambodia 18
- Cameroon 127
- Canada 63
- Cape Verde 4
- Cayman Islands 6
- Central African Republic 266
- Chad 179
- Chile 20
- China 25
- Colombia 104
- Comoros 4
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the 333
- Congo, Republic of the 72
- Cook Islands 1
- Costa Rica 41
- Croatia 77
- Cuba 16
- Cyprus 10
- Czech Republic 27
- Côte d'Ivoire 130
- Denmark 38
- Djibouti 110
- Dominica 9
- Dominican Republic 17
- Ecuador 49
- Egypt 121
- El Salvador 40
- Equatorial Guinea 2
- Eritrea 141
- Estonia 15
- Ethiopia 368
- Falkland Islands 1
- Fiji 2
- Finland 33
- France 60
- French Guiana 4
- Gabon 13
- Gambia 35
- Georgia 36
- Germany 56
- Ghana 44
- Greece 215
- Grenada 9
- Guadeloupe 6
- Guatemala 40
- Guinea 52
- Guinea-Bissau 19
- Guyana 11
- Haiti 30
- Honduras 38
- Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of China) 1
- Hungary 100
- Iceland 15
- India 22
- Indonesia 38
- Iran, Islamic Republic of 147
- Iraq 560
- Ireland 28
- Israel 20
- Italy 90
- Jamaica 12
- Japan 31
- Jordan 177
- Kazakhstan 15
- Kenya 220
- Kiribati 3
- Korea, Democratic People's Republic of 4
- Korea, Republic of 15
- Kuwait 13
- Kyrgyzstan 37
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 9
- Latvia 11
- Lebanon 400
- Lesotho 6
- Liberia 106
- Libya 142
- Liechtenstein 4
- Lithuania 20
- Luxembourg 13
- Madagascar 8
- Malawi 25
- Malaysia 39
- Maldives 2
- Mali 122
- Malta 25
- Marshall Islands 1
- Martinique 5
- Mauritania 75
- Mauritius 1
- Mexico 57
- Micronesia, Federated States of 2
- Moldova, Republic of 28
- Monaco 1
- Mongolia 5
- Montenegro 37
- Montserrat 2
- Morocco 28
- Mozambique 21
- Myanmar 118
- Namibia 15
- Nauru 6
- Nepal 34
- Netherlands 38
- Netherlands Antilles 4
- New Zealand 14
- Nicaragua 21
- Niger 118
- Nigeria 160
- Norway 29
- Oman 9
- Pakistan 136
- Palau 2
- Palestine, State of 22
- Panama 34
- Papua New Guinea 14
- Paraguay 16
- Peru 17
- Philippines 33
- Poland 42
- Portugal 13
- Puerto Rico 3
- Qatar 9
- Romania 48
- Russian Federation 61
- Rwanda 122
- Saint Kitts and Nevis 9
- Saint Lucia 10
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 8
- Samoa 2
- San Marino 1
- Sao Tome and Principe 2
- Saudi Arabia 16
- Senegal 32
- Serbia 137
- Seychelles 1
- Sierra Leone 47
- Slovakia 33
- Slovenia 42
- Solomon Islands 3
- Somalia 504
- South Africa 34
- South Sudan 518
- Spain 24
- Sri Lanka 58
- Sudan 307
- Suriname 10
- Swaziland 10
- Sweden 59
- Switzerland 25
- Syrian Arab Republic 987
- Tajikistan 26
- Tanzania, United Republic of 130
- Thailand 71
- The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 65
- Timor-Leste (East Timor) 13
- Togo 37
- Tonga 2
- Trinidad and Tobago 6
- Tunisia 60
- Turkey 257
- Turkmenistan 20
- Turks and Caicos Islands 5
- Tuvalu 2
- U.S. Virgin Islands 4
- Uganda 300
- Ukraine 201
- United Arab Emirates 12
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 92
- United States of America 99
- Uruguay 24
- Uzbekistan 18
- Vanuatu 2
- Venezuela 25
- Viet Nam 18
- Western Sahara Territory 16
- Yemen 281
- Zambia 50
- Zimbabwe 25
- 1951 Refugee Convention 83
- 1969 OAU Convention 14
- 1984 Cartagena Declaration 3
- Abduction 20
- Access to procedures 92
- Access to water 54
- Accession 3
- Acholi 1
- Administrative courts 2
- Administrative law 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
- Aliens 5
- Anti-terrorism law 1
- Appeal / Right to appeal 4
- Arabs 1
- Arbitrary arrest and detention 61
- Armed attacks on camps 27
- Armed forces / Military 29
- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 64
- Armenian 6
- Arrival 41
- Ashkaelian 2
- Asylum policy 137
- Asylum-migration nexus 173
- Asylum-seekers 1,032
- Azeri 1
- Baha'i 2
- Bantu 1
- Bengalis 1
- Berber 4
- Bihari 1
- Blood feuds 2
- Border conflict 25
- Border controls 56
- Border crossers 100
- Buddhist 2
- Burakumin 1
- Burden of proof 10
- Burden-sharing and international co-operation 123
- Camp management 23
- Cancellation 5
- Capacity building of state institutions 74
- Carrier sanctions 1
- Ceasefire 10
- Cessation clauses 58
- Changes of circumstances in home country 12
- Chechen 6
- Child labour 8
- Child prostitution 4
- Child soldiers 33
- Children's rights 143
- Children-at-risk 319
- Chinese 1
- Christian 20
- Citizenship / Nationality law 41
- Civil and political rights 5
- Civil rights legislation 1
- Civil war 20
- Civilian character of asylum 15
- Climate change (including environmental migrants) 44
- Combatants / Former combatants 10
- Communal conflict / Social conflict 28
- Community development 32
- Complementary forms of protection 65
- Confidentiality 2
- Conflict prevention 6
- Conflict resolution 44
- Conflict situation 145
- 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 8
- Country of origin information (COI) 24
- Credibility assessment 17
- Crime prevention 2
- Crimes against humanity 26
- Crimes against peace 1
- Criminal justice 15
- Croats 1
- Cumulative grounds of persecution 1
- Customary law 1
- Czechs 2
- Darfuri 1
- Death in custody 1
- Death penalty 2
- Decision on admissibility 3
- Demobilization / Disarmament 2
- Democracy 4
- Denial of nationality 6
- Denial of refugee status 3
- Deportation / Forcible return 73
- Diplomatic assurances 2
- Disappeared persons 6
- Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 27
- Domestic violence 19
- Drug trafficking 3
- EU Qualification Directive 46
- Economic, social and cultural rights 15
- Effective protection 24
- Effective remedy 20
- Egyptians 3
- Elections 16
- Entry / Exit 6
- Equal opportunities 5
- Equality before the law 10
- Eritreans 14
- Ethiopians 11
- Ethnic cleansing 1
- Evacuation 6
- Evangelical 1
- Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 13
- Exclusion clauses 53
- Exiles 14
- Expedited procedures 6
- Expulsion 21
- Extended definition 15
- Extradition 20
- Extrajudicial executions 7
- Extreme poverty 11
- False documents 1
- Family reunification 64
- Female genital mutilation (FGM) 18
- Flight by land, air or sea 49
- Forced labour 4
- Forced marriage 8
- Forced relocation 1
- Foreign occupation 3
- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 26
- Freedom of assembly and association 9
- Freedom of conscience 2
- Freedom of expression 18
- Freedom of information 7
- Freedom of movement 83
- Freedom of religion 10
- Freedom of speech 8
- Fulani 1
- Gang related violence 16
- Gender discrimination 63
- Gender mainstreaming 33
- Gender-based persecution 82
- Generalized violence 8
- Genocide 2
- Gio 1
- Global Consultations on international protection 102
- Good governance 6
- Good offices 2
- Gross, systematic and large-scale 1
- Grounds for persecution 6
- Group / Prima facie determination 4
- HIV and AIDS 61
- Habitual residence 2
- Haitians 2
- Harmful traditional practices 18
- Hazara 5
- High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges 36
- High Commissioner's Forum 33
- Hindu 4
- Hmong 2
- Honour killings 1
- Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 36
- Human Rights Council 83
- Human rights activists 16
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 78
- Human rights law 24
- Human rights monitors 3
- Humanitarian assistance 1,161
- Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 3
- IDP camps 197
- Illegal entry 22
- Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 11
- Immigrants 11
- Immigration Detention 120
- Immigration control after entry 2
- Immigration law 23
- Immunity 1
- Impunity 3
- Inclusion clauses 5
- Income-generating projects 1
- Independence of judiciary 2
- Indigenous persons 14
- Integration 206
- Internal armed conflict 162
- Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 50
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 1,985
- 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 17
- International protection 469
- Involuntary repatriation 7
- Jehovah's Witness 4
- Jew 1
- Jurisdiction 2
- Juvenile justice system 1
- Kachin 9
- Karen 5
- Kazakhs 1
- Koreans 1
- Kosovar 6
- Kuchi 2
- Kunama 1
- Kurd 9
- Labour law 2
- Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 8
- Law of the sea 5
- Laws relating to religion 6
- Legal representation / Legal aid 28
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 52
- Livelihoods 92
- Location of camps 342
- Malinke / Mandingo 2
- Mandate status 7
- Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 4
- Mass exodus 21
- Maternal and child health care 9
- Memoranda of understanding (MOU) 3
- Mental harm 1
- Mental health 21
- Mentally disadvantaged persons 4
- Migrant rights 24
- Migrants 311
- Military operations 35
- Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 29
- Minorities 32
- Minority rights 6
- Mongols 1
- Montagnards 1
- Multiple nationality 4
- Muslim 26
- National security / Public order 11
- Naturalization 16
- Non-refoulement 136
- Non-self-governing territories 1
- Non-state agents of persecution 28
- Nuer 4
- Older persons 63
- One-child policy / Family planning 1
- Opposition 2
- Orderly return 13
- Oromo 1
- Palestinian 32
- Pashtun 2
- Passports 2
- Pastoralists 1
- Peace agreements 16
- Peace process 11
- Peacekeeping 14
- Pentecostal 1
- Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 2
- Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 1
- Persecution based on nationality 2
- Persecution based on political opinion 32
- Persecution of family members 9
- Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 39
- Persons not in need of international protection 72
- Persons of concern to UNHCR 301
- Persons with disabilities 81
- Piracy 2
- Police 7
- Political asylum 1
- Political groups 2
- Political parties 4
- Political situation 45
- Polygamy 1
- Population transfers 6
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 2
- Pre-entry procedures 4
- Pre-trial detention 10
- Prevention of discrimination 14
- Prison or detention conditions 56
- Proof of nationality 4
- Property restitution 12
- Prosecution vs persecution 3
- Prostitution / Commercial sex work 10
- Protection of camps 15
- Protection of civilian persons in time of war 57
- Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 1
- Public health 43
- Racial / Ethnic persecution 17
- Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 12
- Readmission 2
- Reception 110
- Reconciliation 18
- Referendum 6
- Refoulement 55
- Refugee / Asylum law 204
- Refugee camps 581
- Refugee identity documents 27
- Refugee seamen 139
- Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 188
- Refugee travel documents / CTDs 5
- Refugees 3,755
- Regional instruments 30
- Registration 83
- Reintegration 34
- Rejected asylum-seekers 15
- Rejection at border 8
- Religious discrimination 10
- Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 25
- Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 122
- Resettlement 379
- Residence permits / Residency 16
- Return conditions 131
- Returnees 389
- Right to a nationality 65
- Right to development 25
- Right to education 108
- Right to employment 30
- Right to family life 29
- Right to food 28
- Right to health 37
- Right to justice 3
- Right to liberty and security 11
- Right to life 4
- Right to registration at birth 53
- Right to return 11
- Right to seek asylum 43
- Right to self-determination 3
- Rights of non-citizens 13
- Rohingya (Arakanese) 33
- Roma 23
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 45
- Rwandans 2
- SGBV 194
- Sabean Mandean 2
- Safe country of origin 27
- Safe third country 71
- Saharawis 12
- Sami 1
- Secondary movement 100
- Security forces 15
- Security situation 308
- Serb 4
- Serious non-political crime 6
- Sexual and reproductive rights 17
- Shabak 7
- Sharia law 5
- Shia 9
- Sikh 3
- Single heads of household 1
- Single procedure 24
- Sinhalese 3
- Smuggling of persons 77
- Social group discrimination 17
- Social group persecution 52
- Somalis 99
- Spontaneous return 14
- Standard of proof 5
- State of emergency 8
- State protection 13
- Statelessness 468
- Statelessness Determination Procedures 12
- Stowaways 10
- Sufi 1
- Sunni 5
- Sur place persecution 2
- Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 26
- Suspensive effect 2
- Tajik 2
- Tamil 5
- Temporary admission 9
- Temporary protection 26
- Territorial asylum 9
- Terrorism 51
- Threats / Intimidation 1
- Tibetan 1
- Torture 5
- Trafficking in persons 141
- Transgression of social / cultural norms 3
- Transit 11
- Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 5
- Travel documents 9
- Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 85
- Tuareg 3
- Turkmen 10
- UNHCR mandate 58
- Ukrainians 1
- Unaccompanied / Separated children 204
- Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 261
- Urban refugees 94
- Uzbek 5
- Visas 5
- Voluntary repatriation 323
- War crimes 6
- Well-founded fear of persecution 15
- Withdrawal of nationality 2
- Women's rights 65
- Women-at-risk 198
- Work permits 2
- Yazīdī 17
- Zoroastrian 2
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