Maya 2022 documentation5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of the recent progress is remarkable.įor example, the Bureau for Refugee Affairs has resumed registration of children in mid-2022.Īs a result, 1,000 refugee children so far this year have their own refugee documentation for the first time in many years. This includes enhancing the authorities' refugee registration activities and determining who is a refugee, ensuring that UNHCR's stretched assistance targets those most in need, mobilising refugee communities to support their vulnerable community members, and supporting durable solutions including safe and voluntary return home and resettlement to third countries (more resettlement places are direly needed). The National Committee for Refugee Affairs in Sana'a is collaborating with UNHCR on a joint vision for how refugees and asylum seekers should be treated. ![]() Yet, long before the Refugee Convention, the principles of refugee protection could be found in Islam and have been embraced by Yemen. Yemen has assumed international legal responsibilities by becoming a party to the 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees, with support of UNHCR and the international community. And we should not also forget the Yemenis who have fled abroad and yearn to return home.ĭespite their own suffering, Yemeni communities generously shelter nearly 100,000 refugees from other war-affected countries. Some internally displaced people (IDPs) are already returning home amidst the destruction. Yemen's share of displacement is more than 4.3 million people who had to flee their homes to find safety elsewhere within the country - one of the world's largest internal displacement situations (Photo: UNHCR). ![]()
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