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UNHCR

UNHCR

UNHCR

Mandate and operations

 

UNHCR’s primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of people who have been forced to flee. Together with partners and communities, UNHCR works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek protection and find safe refuge.


UNHCR is the world’s leading organization charged with protecting refugees and other forcibly displaced people and with helping to resolve problems of statelessness. In the course of our 65-year history, the massive challenges of forced displacement have led us to move beyond our primary role in protecting and assisting refugees and helping to solve refugee problems, into a broader engagement with people forcibly displaced inside their own countries. Our work extends as well to important areas of prevention and stabilization, including efforts to address the situation of the world’s estimated 10 million stateless people.


For over half a century, UNHCR has helped millions of people to restart their lives. They include refugees, returnees, stateless people, the internally displaced and asylum-seekers.

The 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol are the key legal documents that form the basis of UNHCR’s work. With 149 State parties to either or both, UNHCR promotes the human rights of refugees.

Standby Partnerships programme

 


In 2024, the world’s forcibly displaced population surpassed 122 million as new crises erupted, old  conflicts continued, and humanitarian emergencies  escalated. Millions were forced to flee for a second  or third time, and millions were compelled to return  home under adverse conditions.  Emergency Standby Partnerships are integral to  UNHCR’s preparedness and response capacity.  In 2024, UNHCR facilitated 149 emergency  deployments to 38 operations and HQ support  functions. Nearly half of all deployments  supported emergency responses to crises such as  those in Sudan, the Central Sahel, Lebanon and  the Syrian Arab Republic. Standby Partners also  provided strategic support in areas such as  protection, energy, solutions, and mental health  and psychosocial support, while experts at the  Geneva Technical Hub gave technical support to  operations across the world.

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The Standby Partnership (SBP) Network is an initiative composed of participating NGOs, Governments, Donors, Non-Profit Organisations, Private Sector Companies and UN agencies providing critical surge support in humanitarian crisis and emergencies globally.

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