Discussion Paper
20 November, 2008

Discussion Paper – UNHCR High Commissioner’s Dialogue on Protection Challenges Protracted Refugee Situations

Subject / Protection / Forced migration /
Discussion Paper - UNHCR High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges Protracted Refugee Situations
Description

This discussion paper is intended to help frame the debate on protracted refugee situations at the December 2008 meeting of the High Commissioner’s Dialogue on Protection Challenges. It is also designed to support the implementation of the High Commissioner’s Special Initiative on Protracted Refugee Situations, which focuses on five situations in different parts of the world where refugees have been living in exile for long periods of time: Afghan refugees in the Islamic Republic of Iran and Pakistan; refugees from Myanmar in Bangladesh; Bosnian and Croatian refugees in Serbia; Burundian refugees in the United Republic of Tanzania; and Eritrean refugees in eastern Sudan.