UNHCR continued its efforts to ensure that refugees and asylum-seekers were registered, could obtain identity documents, and could reach a place of safety in 2023. During the year, more than 2.55 million people were registered in 138 countries.
UNHCR continued its efforts to ensure the protection of over 50 million forcibly displaced and stateless children in 2023.
UNHCR continued its efforts to ensure that refugees and other forcibly displaced people have adequate access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in 2023.
UNHCR continued its efforts in 2023 to support community-based protection, to promote the involvement of grass-roots organizations and women’s representation and leadership, and to protect refugees who were at particular risk due to disability, age, gender or other areas of diversity.
UNHCR continued its efforts to ensure the schooling of forcibly displaced and stateless children in 2023, and to promote refugees’ access to tertiary education.
UNHCR worked in 2023 to prevent, mitigate and respond to cases of gender-based violence, a threat to 60 million forcibly displaced women and girls especially.
UNHCR continued its efforts to ensure refugees and other forcibly displaced and stateless people had adequate health care in 2023, when 14 million people benefited from UNHCR-supported health services.
UNHCR continued its efforts in 2023 to support the integration of refugees and other forcibly displaced people in the communities where they reside, as a way of bringing their displacement to an end.
UNHCR continued tp promote and support States’ alignment with key international instruments for the protection of forcibly displaced and stateless people, especially the 1951 Refugee Convention, its 1967 Protocol, and the two statelessness conventions.
UNHCR continued its efforts to promote and support the resettlement of refugees in 2023, as well as complementary pathways such as family reunification or schemes to work or study in a third country. UNHCR submitted more than 155,000 refugees for resettlement and 96,300 departed.
UNHCR continued its efforts to improve the safety of forcibly displaced and stateless people in 2023 and to ensure their access to justice. This included providing legal aid, promoting awareness of refugees’ legal rights, and advocating with States to use detention only as a last resort.
UNHCR continued its efforts in 2023 to promote forcibly displaced and stateless people’s self-reliance, economic inclusion, and employment.
UNHCR continued its efforts to ensure the fair and efficient processing of asylum claims, which rose to a record 6.9 million by the end of 2023, with 3.85 million new applications for refugee status during the year.
UNHCR continued its efforts to ensure that refugees and other forcibly displaced people had adequate shelter in 2023, with 2.9 million people receiving shelter and housing assistance in 67 countries.
UNHCR continued its efforts to help refugees make a voluntary return to their own country in 2023. During the year, more than 1 million returned, bringing their forced displacement to an end.
UNHCR sought to meet the basic needs of forcibly displaced and stateless people in 2023, including by disbursing $760 million in cash, providing 8.1 million people with relief items, and providing fuel and equipment for clean cooking.
