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Afghan refugees in Tajikistan and deportations

Tajikistan hosts the largest refugee population in Central Asia, almost entirely from Afghanistan; most live in Vahdat near Dushanbe and in Rudaki district.

According to UNHCR, at the end of 2025 Tajikistan hosted 8,621 refugees and 3,237 asylum-seekers. Since autumn 2024 the authorities have deported more than a thousand Afghans to Afghanistan, most of them refugees and asylum-seekers; UNHCR has called for the deportations to stop. In July 2026 human rights organisations raised the issue with the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.

Numbers with sources

Needs

• protection
• shelter
• livelihoods

Who is helping

Organisations that, according to their own publications, work on this event (2). Donations go directly to each organisation's own website - GLOBURNS does not handle payments.

• Inson va Adolat (Human and Justice)
  A Tajik non-governmental organisation and UNHCR partner providing free legal, social and counselling assistance to asylum-seekers and refugees.
• UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)
  UNHCR protects refugees, internally displaced and stateless people and runs camps and registration. In eastern Chad it supports refugees arriving from Sudan.
  Donate on the organisation's website (donate.unhcr.org)

Sources

• data.unhcr.org data.unhcr.org/en/country/tjk
• eurasianet.org eurasianet.org/after-tajikistan-deports-hundreds-of-afghans-refugee-community-remains-on…
• globaldetentionproject.org globaldetentionproject.org/tajikistan-joint-submission-to-the-un-committee-on-the-rights…
• timesca.com timesca.com/unhcr-again-urges-tajikistan-to-stop-deporting-afghan-refugees/

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