UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people. UNHCR works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution, war or disaster at home.
Since 1950, UNHCR has faced multiple crises on multiple continents, and provided vital assistance to refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless people, many of whom have nobody left to turn to. Seeking and providing durable solutions to the problems of refugees is central to UNHCR’s mandate to provide international protection to refugees and other persons of concern and seek durable solutions to their problems.
As one of three durable solutions available to refugees, resettlement is an essential element of the international protection regime. UNHCR leads the development of global resettlement policy and partners with resettlement States to coordinate and deliver resettlement programmes that offer protection and solutions to the most vulnerable refugees.
UNHCR also works with States, civil society, private sector, academia, governmental organizations and refugees to identify, establish and expand complementary pathways for admission to third countries that will meet the continuous international protection needs of refugees.