This page describes UNHCR’s efforts to ensure the safety of forcibly displaced and stateless people in 2025 and to ensure their access to justice. This includes providing legal aid, promoting awareness of refugees’ legal rights, and advocating with States to use detention only as a last resort.
Global financial needs amount to $315 million (+0.1% vs 2024 current budget)
When people are forced to flee from their homes or are stateless, they are often in acutely vulnerable situations, at risk of arbitrary detention, trafficking, gender-based violence, discrimination and more. In 2025, we will work with a wide array of legal partners to advance access to justice. We will provide legal assistance to hundreds of thousands of people, support communities’ legal empowerment, seek the release of people in detention, and carry out legal training, detention monitoring, protection monitoring, court interventions and strategic litigation.
