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Protecting the world's vulnerable people
The protection of 20.8 million uprooted people is the core mandate of UNHCR. The agency does this in several ways. Using the 1951 Geneva Refugee Convention as its major tool, it ensures the basic human rights of vulnerable persons and that refugees will not be returned involuntarily to a country where they face persecution. Longer term, the organization helps civilians repatriate to their homeland, integrate in countries of asylum or resettle in third countries. Using a world wide field network, it also seeks to provide at least a minimum of shelter, food, water and medical care in the immediate aftermath of any refugee exodus.
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Through an extensive body of international law and treaties and by working with governments and other organizations on subjects ranging from promoting asylum systems to refugee advocacy, UNHCR promotes the legal protection of refugees and durable solutions.
Refugee women and girls face particular difficulties, and UNHCR has developed special training and assistance programmes to help them meet these challenges.
UNHCR seeks lasting solutions for the problems of refugees through repatriation to the home countries, integration in first countries of asylum, or resettlement to third countries.
A stateless person is someone who is not recognized by any country as a citizen.
(www.refworld.org)
This compilation of basic protection and protection-related documents has been developed on the request of, and to benefit newly recruited UNHCR staff as well as deployees and UNVs working with UNHCR.
(legal/eligibility guidelines/ considerations on international protection/
return advisories etc) country of origin information
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There are around 25 million young people uprooted in the world, many of them living in appalling conditions and subject to widespread abuse.
Meeting new needs
Giving fleeing civilians emergency food, shelter and other material assistance is often the first step toward their long term protection and rehabilitation.
Questions & Answers
In Swedish, Estonian, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish, Icelandic and English.
Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status under the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees.
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Refworld is the leading source of information necessary for taking quality decisions on refugee status.
8 July 2010
UNHCR’s recommendations to Belgium for its EU Presidency, July – December 2010
15 June, 2010
2009 Global Trends Report:
Refugees, Asylum-seekers, Returnees, Internally Displaced and Stateless Persons, 15 June 2010.
11 June 2010
UNHCR, Lithuanian Red Cross and the State Border Guard Service in Lithuania have taken an important step towards ensuring protection-sensitive border monitoring in Lithuania.
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Statistical Overview of Asylum Applications Lodged in Europe and Selected Non-European Countries
23 March 2010
The purpose of the Guidelines is to improve the quality of the asylum process
for children and to ensure a consistent interpretation of the refugee definition.
The Guidelines cover all child asylum-seekers, including accompanied, unaccompanied
and separated children who may have individual claims to refugee status.
(22 December 2009)
December 2009
9 November 2009
Asylum Levels
and Trends in Industrialized Countries, and statistical information from the
Baltic and Nordic countries.
A two-day-training course on asylum law and the Swedish national procedures in September 2008.
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