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Type keywords (and optionally, quotation marks, plus and minus symbols) related to what you are looking for (or a question or phrase) in the search box.

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Use these formats when entering queries into either the "Search UNHCR" or "Advanced Search" boxes.

Legal Protection
Finds documents that contain either 'legal' or 'protection' or any capitalized variant (Legal, LEGAL, PrOtection, Protection). Ranks the results to show first the documents containing both words, close together, and near the top of the document.
+legal +protection
Finds only documents that contain both words. Be sure there is no space between the plus sign and the word.
+legal protection
All documents found must contain 'legal' or any capitalized variant. Documents that contain 'protection' are ranked higher in the list than documents that do not contain 'protection'.
"Legal Protection"
Finds documents that contain both words found right next to each other. Placing quotation marks around any series of words turns them into a phrase and tells the search engine that you are only interested in documents that have the words in this specific order.
+"Legal Protection" -Assistance
Finds documents that contain the phrase "Legal Protection" but do not contain the word 'Assistance'.
+ Legal +Protect*
Finds documents that contain 'Legal' and any word starting with 'Protect'. Use an asterisk (*) when you're not sure how a word is spelled or to find variations of the word. Use an asterisk at the end or in the middle of words. KIMS ignores an asterisk at the beginning of a word.

Improving Your Results

Use the form in Advanced Search for a while until you gain search experience. The form makes it easy for you to limit the results in many ways.

If your search finds too many pages, enter several words likely to appear on pages that discuss the material you are looking for. Pages that contain all the words you enter are listed higher in the list.

Enter more specific or less common words.

Enter phrases (words within quotation marks). KIMS stores the entire text of Web pages, so it can find the exact sequence of words you enter.

If your search finds too few pages, enter fewer or more general words or use the asterisk to find plurals as well as singular forms of the word or some other grammatical variations. For example, enter bicycle* to find both bicycle and bicycles.

Phrase your search as a question if that is most natural for you. Example: Where can I find information on agents of persecution?