Resettlement News

*(updated)

The 18th Annual Tripartite Consultations on Resettlement were held recently in Geneva.  As this Briefing Note indicates, 859,300 refugees around the world are in need of resettlement, but "there are just 81,000 resettlement places each year offered among some 26 States, meaning that in any year only one-in-10 persons needing resettlement will have an opportunity to be resettled."

*UNHCR's projected global resettlement needs for 2013 are available here.

The Refugee Council of Australia's report of the gathering is available here, beginning on p. 8.

Other recent resettlement items include:

Frequently Asked Questions about Resettlement (UNHCR, April 2012) [text]

Implementation of the Strategic Use of Resettlement (UNHCR, Sept. 2011) [text]
- Discussion paper for Working Group on Resettlement, Geneva, 11‐12 October 2011.

Linking-in EU Resettlement Newsletter, no. 3 (July 2012) [full-text]

Progress Report on Resettlement, 54th Meeting of the Standing Committee, UN Doc. No. EC/63/SC/CRP.12 (EXCOM, June 2012) [text]

Refugee Resettlement: Expanding its Reach and Effectiveness through Broader NGO Participation, Background Paper for Annual Consultations with NGOs, Geneva, 3-5 July 2012 [text]

UNHCR Guidelines on the Resubmission of Resettlement Cases (UNHCR, June 2012) [text]

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