Global Appeal 2025

Protection policy and law

OUTCOME AREA 3

This page describes UNHCR’s plans in 2025 to 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.

 

A woman standing
Elmimar Mendoza is a Venezuelan woman who arrived in Ecuador six years ago with her family. She was unable to take advantage of the first regularization process in 2019 because she did not have a passport. Ecuador’s announcement of a new regularization process has renewed her hopes of regularizing her status, allowing her to access a bank account and develop her sewing business. © UNHCR/Omar Ganchala
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Global financial needs amount to $284 million (-8% vs 2024 current budget)

SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities

Despite record forced displacement, many States have still not acceded to key international agreements on refugees or statelessness, nor have they passed laws on internal displacement. In 2025, UNHCR will advocate for stronger legal frameworks in many countries, based on analysis of their laws and policies, and will provide advice on the interpretation of relevant international instruments, and assistance to States in their implementation. 

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Core Outcome Indicators

refugee


Extent national legal framework is in line with the 1951 Convention and/or its 1967 Protocol

 

legal framework


Extent national legal framework is in line with the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness

 

 

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Core Output Indicators
 

policy

Number of countries where UNHCR has engaged in legislative and judicial processes to strengthen laws and policies for the protection of refugees, IDPs, returnees and stateless people*
2024 Mid-year progress:  79 countries

 

Financial overview