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Protection Impact During the Lean Season

UNHCR helps to save lives and build better futures for the millions of people forced to flee their homes.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home.

Since 1950, we have faced multiple crises on multiple continents, and provided vital protection and assistance to refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless people, many of whom have nobody left to turn to.

We help to save lives and build better futures for millions forced from home.

Key facts and figures

3.5 million people in Nigeria are forcibly displaced.
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3.9 million of the worlds forcibly displaced population are Nigerian

with 14% seeking asylum in about 100 countries around the world, though majority remain within the Lake Chad Basin.

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