The Role Of The United Nations High Commissioner Refugees

The United Nations High Commissioner Refugees (UNHCR) is an international organization that works to protect and assist refugees anywhere in the world, by providing shelter, health, safeguarding individuals, assessing global needs and advocating for those populations (UNHCR, 2016). In fact, the 5 groups the UNHCR helps are refugees in Eastern of Turkey, The diaspora from Africa, refugees in South America, refugees in the Middle East and refugees from Syria (Salopek, 2015). Generally, refugees are those who flee from inevitable, often long-term violence and other difficult living conditions brought on by the war. The United Nations more narrowly describes refugees as "persons who are outside their country and cannot return owing to a well-founded fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, political opinion,

For the most part, little support reaches a person escaping a war until he or she crosses an international border. The United Nations distinguishes refugees and IDPs this way: "When a fleeing civilian crosses an international frontier, he or she becomes a refugee and as such is eligible to receive international protection and help. If a person in similar circumstances is displaced within his or her home country and becomes an internally displaced person, then assistance and protection is much more difficult" (UNHCR,2016). In other word, people who escaped a conflict and cross an international border are refugees and are eligible for UNHCR help. Whereas, IDP’s are people whom run away from a conflict, but does not cross the border and are not helped by the UNHCR, because they are under the protection of their government even although, this government is the cause of their miserable