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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.

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Headquarters

Switzerland

Sectors

• shelter
• protection
• water and sanitation
• health

Works on

• Humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan South and Central Asia
• Civil war in Sudan Northeast Africa
• Crisis in Venezuela and migration South America
• Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar South Asia
• Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad Central Africa
• Migrants and refugees in Libya and the Central Mediterranean route North Africa, Mediterranean Sea
• Organised criminal group violence in Ecuador South America
• Migrants and asylum seekers in Mexico North America, Mexico

Field centres (14)

• field base (Chad) Chad
• UNHCR Colombia office (Bogota) Colombia
• UNHCR field office in Cucuta Colombia
• UNHCR office in Boa Vista (Roraima, Operation Welcome) Brazil
• UNHCR Representation in Bangladesh (Dhaka) Bangladesh
• UNHCR Sub-Office Cox's Bazar Bangladesh
• UNHCR Field Office on Bhasan Char Island Bangladesh
• UNHCR Office in Pakistan (Islamabad) Pakistan
• UNHCR Voluntary Repatriation Centre Azakhel (Nowshera) Pakistan
• UNHCR Libya office (Tripoli) Libya
• UNHCR Sub-Office Guayaquil Ecuador
• UNHCR (ACNUR) office in Tapachula Mexico
• UNHCR (ACNUR) office in Ciudad Juárez Mexico
• UNHCR (ACNUR) office in Tijuana Mexico

Sources

• unhcr.org
• news.un.org

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