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The Public Information unit has access to the latest information
on UNHCR's work world-wide.
In
this section you can find basic
facts about UNHCR and the 1951 Convention relating to
the Status of Refugees, including basic definitions and obligations,
as well as guides to refugee
and asylum statistics.
This
section also contains briefings on contemporary
asylum issues. In the UK, refugees and asylum has become
one of the top political and media topics of the day. This
section provides background information to some of the key
UK issues, including refugee media myths, as briefings on
wider international issues, for example gender asylum issues.
In
addition, there are country
updates as a useful background guide to developments and
refugee emergencies around the globe.
These
briefings are complied using publicly available information,
analysis and comment. They are not, and do not purport to
be, fully exhaustive with regard to conditions in the countries
surveyed or issues examined, or conclusive as to the merits
of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.
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