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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Chanelle Taoi Associate Legal Officer Canberra Girls’ Grammar School 2 September 2013. UNHCR’s Role. UNHCR’s role (mandate) is to: protect refugees; and seek solutions for refugees. 1951 Refugee Convention.

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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

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  1. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Chanelle Taoi Associate Legal Officer Canberra Girls’ Grammar School 2 September 2013

  2. UNHCR’s Role • UNHCR’s role (mandate) is to: • protect refugees; and • seek solutions for refugees.

  3. 1951 Refugee Convention • Defines the term “refugee”. • Provides for minimum standards of treatment of refugees. • Not sending people back into danger.

  4. Who is a refugee? • Any person who: owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country.

  5. Other people UNHCR helps • Asylum-seekers • Returnees • Stateless persons • Internally Displaced Persons

  6. Average number of newly displaced persons

  7. Refugees and IDPs assisted by UNHCR

  8. Top 10 refugee hosting countries

  9. Top 10 source countries of refugees

  10. Where does UNHCR work?

  11. What we do: legal protection • Registering asylum-seekers. • Determining refugee claims. • Working with governments & communities.

  12. What we do: physical protection • Shelter • Health care • Education • Water • Food

  13. What we do: helping children • Half of displaced people are children. • UNHCR’s priorities for children: • Family unity • Preventing exploitation & violence • Preventing military recruitment • Education • Helping adolescents

  14. Faces of the children UNHCR help

  15. What we do: long-term solutions • Voluntary Repatriation • Local Integration • Resettlement

  16. UNHCR’s Regional Office in Canberra

  17. Thank you www.unhcr.org.au aulca@unhcr.org (02) 6260 3411 Facebook/Twitter: UNHCRCanberra

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