UNHCR - Note on International Protection

Note on International Protection

Standing Committee, 5 June 2009

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Advocacy is a key element in UNHCR activities to protect people of concern.

Voluntary repatriation, local integration, resettlement, the three key solutions.

The millions of stateless people are left in a legal limbo, with limited basic rights.

Migrants are different from refugees but the two sometimes travel alongside each other.

A UNHCR strategy setting out key areas in which action is required to address the phenomenon of mixed and irregular movements of people. See also: Schematic representation of a profiling and referral mechanism in the context of addressing mixed migratory movements.

The protection of millions of uprooted or stateless people is UNHCR's core mandate.

Edited by Erika Feller, Volker Türk and Frances Nicholson, published 2003 by Cambridge University Press