Welcome to Visitors and Researchers



UNHCR Visitors' Centre:

The aim of the Visitor's Centre is to inform the public about the plight of refugees around the world and about UNHCR's humanitarian action. It organises presentations and lectures for groups by appointment.

Open to the public on Monday afternoon, and from Tuesday to Friday (from 9:30 am to 12:00 pm and from 14:00 to 16:00 pm)
Location: UNHCR Visitors' Centre, 94 rue de Montbrillant, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland.
Mailing address: UNHCR Visitors' Centre, P.O. Box 2500, 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland.
E-mail: UNHCR Visitors Center
Tel: + 41 22 739 8606 or + 41 22 739 8812
Fax: + 41 22 739 7316

Library reference services:

Within the context of a service agreement between UNHCR and the United Nations at Geneva (UNOG), UNHCR is moving its Headquarters library collection on refugee-related issues to the nearby Palais des Nations. The UNHCR Library at Headquarters will be closed from 18 February 2008 and the UNHCR collection is now available at the UNOG Library in the Palais.

Open to researchers Monday through Friday (from 8:30 am to 17:30 pm)
Location: UNOG Library, Palais des Nations, 1202 Geneva
Main entrance, Building B, Door 20
Web site: www.unog.ch/library
E-mail: UNOG Library
Tel: + 41 (0)22 917 41 81


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Search Library Highlights
Latest acquisitions by the UNHCR Library.
Latest: January and February 2008


Search Library Bibliographies


Photography books and humanitarian action 2004


International Thesaurus of Refugee Terminology
The online third edition of the ITRT is now available.


Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ)
An academic journal on refugee issues produced by UNHCR and published by Oxford University Press.

Click here for on-line RSQ Thematic Index (1994-2005).

Click here for RSQ Index by Issue Number.


Selected Library Portals
Links to external library websites