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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.
(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.
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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.
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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